{"id":6383,"date":"2009-07-15T07:08:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T14:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=6383"},"modified":"2009-07-15T11:12:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T18:12:13","slug":"construction-jobs-still-contracting-fastest-around-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/construction-jobs-still-contracting-fastest-around-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction Jobs Still Contracting Fastest Around Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest state unemployment figures came out yesterday.  Here&#8217;s a brief look.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle area&#8217;s (King\/Snohomish) unemployment rate (not seasonally adjusted):<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 600px; margin: 0 auto 15px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Unemployment_2009-06.png\" title=\"Seattle Area Unemployment Rate\" rel=\"lightbox[6383]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Unemployment_2009-06-600x435.png\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" alt=\"Seattle Area Unemployment Rate\" title=\"Seattle Area Unemployment Rate\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a graph that I created for <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/?ref=sba\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly\">Sound Housing Quarterly<\/a>, which shows the percentage change year-over-year in various job categories, also for King\/Snohomish:<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 600px; margin: 0 auto 15px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Job-Growth_2009-06.png\" title=\"Seattle Area YOY Job Growth\" rel=\"lightbox[6383]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Job-Growth_2009-06-600x435.png\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" alt=\"Seattle Area YOY Job Growth title=\"Seattle Area YOY Job Growth\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you take out construction, finance\/real estate, and retail, the number of jobs in the Seattle area only dropped by 0.75% from June &#8217;08 to June &#8217;09.  Including those sectors, it fell 3.97%.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the flattening in the line for construction in above chart does not indicate that the job losses have subsided, merely that the rate of job losses is no longer accelerating.  As of June, the number of construction jobs in the Seattle area had fallen around 15% year-over-year for three months in a row.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workforceexplorer.com\/cgi\/dataanalysis\/?PAGEID=94&#038;SUBID=149\" title=\"Workforce Explorer, Publications and Reports\">Washington State Employment Security Department<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest state unemployment figures came out yesterday. Here&#8217;s a brief look. Seattle area&#8217;s (King\/Snohomish) unemployment rate (not seasonally adjusted): And here&#8217;s a graph that I created for Sound Housing Quarterly, which shows the percentage change year-over-year in various job categories, also for King\/Snohomish:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[198],"tags":[13,303],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-job_growth","tag-unemployment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Construction Jobs Still Contracting Fastest Around Seattle \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/construction-jobs-still-contracting-fastest-around-seattle\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Construction Jobs Still Contracting Fastest Around Seattle \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Latest state unemployment figures came out yesterday. 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