{"id":103732,"date":"2025-07-30T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103732\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:13:10","slug":"multnomah-county-is-losing-jobs-even-as-state-job-growth-hits-nearly-5000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103732\/","title":{"rendered":"Multnomah County is losing jobs even as state job growth hits nearly 5,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Oregon\u2019s most populous county lost 1% of its jobs from June 2024 to 2025 even as the state overall saw positive job growth. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/QJTTUQG4HRGMXDCQ7N6L5NQDEY.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Portland seen from Goose Hollow on Jul 28, 2025.\" class=\"width_full\" style=\"aspect-ratio:5712 \/ 4284;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Downtown Portland seen from Goose Hollow on Jul 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Francisca Benitez, Francisca Benitez \/ OPB<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Multnomah County, home to Portland, makes up a quarter of Oregon\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">\u201cThere are about 2 million jobs in the entire state of Oregon \u2014 and Multnomah County accounts for 500,000 of them,\u201d Jake Procino, economist with the Oregon Employment Department, said. \u201cMultnomah County has an overwhelming impact on the state\u2019s numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">In contrast, Oregon overall has added around 4,700 jobs overall, representing a growth rate of 0.4%. Marion and Polk Counties had the fastest rates of job growth at 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Procino says most areas of the state have rebounded from the deep job cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Portland, however, has not. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">\u201cMultnomah County has yet to recover to the employment levels seen in 2019,\u201d Procino said, \u201cwhile the state of Oregon has recovered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The healthcare industry did add positions, but Procino said those were eclipsed by losses in construction and manufacturing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">It remains to be seen how Multnomah County\u2019s losses will ripple through Oregon, but economists often consider major cities as a bellwether for a region\u2019s economy. The state still has a relatively low unemployment rate at 4.9%, but it\u2019s ticked up from 4.1% in December. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon\u2019s most populous county lost 1% of its jobs from June 2024 to 2025 even as the state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,420,67046,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-103732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-jobs-multnomah-county-portland-unemployment","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114940005792562150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}