Job Gains & Losses

Business Employment Dynamics (BED)

Idaho Job Gains & Losses: 4Q 2016 Updated 08/23/2017

Components of private sector gross job gains and job losses, seasonally adjusted

March 2006 - December 2016

Total Private

Idaho's Business Employment Dynamics: Fourth Quarter 2016

During the fourth quarter of 2016, gross job gains exceeded gross job losses and yielded a net employment gain of 4,971 in Idaho, according to preliminary Business Employment Dynamics data released by the Idaho Department of Labor and the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.

From September 2016 to December 2016, gross job gains from Idaho’s expanding and opening private sector establishments totaled 43,414. This amounted to 1,559 fewer job gains than in the previous quarter. Over this same period, gross job losses from contracting and closing private sector establishments totaled 38,443, down by 2,037 from the previous quarter.

During this same period, Idaho experienced a net establishment increase of 410.

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Posted 08/21/2017

What is the Business Employment Dynamics program?

The Business Employment Dynamics (BED) data are a product of a federal-state cooperative program known as Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages (QCEW).

BED data measure the net change in employment from 1992 forward; highlighting the number and rates of gross jobs gained at opening and expanding establishments as well as the number and rates of gross jobs lost by closing and contracting establishments.

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