PropertyExplorerPDX » Portland Job Growth http://propertyexplorerpdx.com Portland, OR Real Estate Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:02:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Portland Ranks #10 for Best Job Growth Nationwide http://propertyexplorerpdx.com/2009/04/24/portland-ranks-10-for-best-job-growth-nationwide/ http://propertyexplorerpdx.com/2009/04/24/portland-ranks-10-for-best-job-growth-nationwide/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:35:22 +0000 gibbons1 http://propertyexplorerpdx.com/?p=609 Portland ranks #10 out of large metro cities for best job growth in a study by Forbes.com. 

Despite bigger losses in overall employment than the other top large American cities, Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton rounds out the top 10 with only a small decline in job growth (2.2%) from 2007 to 2008. Its education and health-services sectors continued to grow, gaining 3.2% last year. Since 2006, Portland’s employment prospects have steadily improved; it jumped from a 30th-place rank among large cities to 11th last year.

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