Tulsa Job Growth

We are working in Northeast Oklahoma. Here is a recent article about job growth in the Tulsa part of the region. The more rural counties in the region have not seen as strong of job growth.

The Tulsa metropolitan area has seen a substantial increase in the number of jobs this year over last year--and 2006 is only half over. But don’t get too excited yet. While 2006 is seeing increases in job growth and a low unemployment rate, the number of new jobs still isn’t at levels on 2004 and 2003. Even more, Tulsa’s job growth numbers were small in 2005.

Though the national economy seems to have recovered, and with it, the state and local enonomies on its coattails, Tulsa still have a lot of “recovering” to make up for big losses in jobs and population during the oil bust years of the mid-to-late ‘80s and, more recently, the tens of thousands of jobs lost during the telecom and aerospace bust in 2001. But, based on the numbers found on the Tulsa Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce’s Web site, www.tulsachamber.com, there has been a total of new 4,933 jobs in 2006.

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