ALBANY – Rockland County experienced the second highest rate of job growth in the state and the top rate in the Hudson Valley when comparing September 2024 to September 2025, the State Labor Department reported on Tuesday.
Sullivan County, with a 4.0 percent growth rate, was second in the region to Rockland’s 4.6 percent rate.
Greene County was a distant third with 1.9 percent, followed by Putnam County’s 1.3 percent increase in jobs.
The Dutchess-Orange area saw only a 0.6 percent job growth and Ulster County saw only a 0.2 percent rate.
For the 12-month period ending September 2025, the private sector job count in the Hudson Valley fell by 1,400, or 0.2 percent, to 827,800.
Employment gains were largest in private education and health services (+5,200), financial activities (+1,000) and professional and business services (+1,000). Job losses were greatest in leisure and hospitality (-4,000), other services (-1,900), mining, logging and construction (-1,100), information (-1,000) and trade, transportation and utilities (-700).
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