Austin only major city to add jobs in last year - Denver Business Journal:

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The region added about 3,400 jobs between Apri l 2008 andApril 2009, making it the only one of the nation'w 38 largest cities to post a job new data from the Bureau of Labore Statistics shows. This is the third consecutive month that Austin has outperformed all of theother U.S. cities with labor forces of 750,0090 or more. The unemployment rate for April stoodat 5.8 The 0.4 percent increase in job totalxs is modest, but still a bettetr showing than cities such as Portlandr (down 4.7 percent) and Raleigh, N.C. (downj 3.3 percent).
Jobs in goods producing industries in the Austim area dropped by 500 jobsin April, a slowdown from the rapid pace of recent according to an analysis of the data from the Capital Area Council of Governments. Retail, hotel, and restaurant jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business service sectord employment is back toits all-timd high last seen in Octobeer 2008. But another key sector for the region, isn't doing quite as well. Computer, semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing is still Jobs in the semiconductor segment fellto 15,700 jobs, back to springv 2006 totals. As Texaw cities go, Austin's 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one ofthe Dallas-Fort Worth stood at 6.6 percenft in April and Houston at 6.3 percent. Only San Antonio'sa rate was lower than Austin's at 5.4 Smaller metro areas including Brownsville and Beaumount all had rates abov8 percent.