Job Gains & Losses

Business Employment Dynamics (BED)

Idaho Job Gains & Losses: 1Q 2021 Updated 12/2/21

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

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Idaho’s Business Employment Dynamics (BED): First Quarter 2021

During the first quarter of 2021, gross job gains exceeded gross job losses and yielded a net employment gain of 16,217 jobs 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 December 2020 to March 2021, gross job gains from Idaho’s expanding and opening private sector establishments totaled 53,979. This amounted to a decrease in jobs gained from the previous quarter of 2,001. Over this same time-period, gross job losses from contracting and closing private sector establishments totaled 37,762; this amounted to a decrease from the previous quarter of 1,353.

During this same period, Idaho experienced a net establishment increase of 2,261.

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Updated 12/2/2021

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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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