Employment in the metro area's largest sector, educational services, and health care and social assistance, fell by 11.3% in 2014, while nationwide sector employment increased by 1.9%.
Employment in the metro area's largest sector, educational services, and health care and social assistance, fell by 8.1% in 2014, while nationwide this sector's employment grew by 1.9%.
Nationwide, the industries that added the most employees to the income pool were the educational, health, and social services sector, the arts and entertainment sector, the professional and scientific sector, as well as the construction sector.
While several industries shed jobs, employment increased at above average rates in the information, wholesale trade, and educational and health services sectors, more than offsetting the other sectors' lost jobs.
A drag on productivity in the first quarter came in the service sector, in such things as legal and educational services and auto repair.
Cable has written a book, Ed Davey has entered the private sector and Sarah Teather is delivering educational services in South Sudan.
Employment in educational services, health care, and social assistances, the metro area's largest sector, fell by 6.4%, while nationwide the sector's employment increased by 1.9%.
More than 1.6 million new jobs have been created in these sectors, led by a 12.7percentt jump in educational services and a 10.1percentt gain in health care.
