{"id":22619,"date":"2025-07-20T00:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/22619\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:23:08","slug":"these-sectors-have-produced-the-most-jobs-in-louisiana-over-the-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/22619\/","title":{"rendered":"These sectors have produced the most jobs in Louisiana over the past year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baton Rouge\u2019s job market continues its steady climb, adding 1,800 jobs in June 2025 and 4,900 over the past year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laworks.net\/Downloads\/LMI\/LMIPressRelease_20250718_State.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the latest figures from the Louisiana Workforce Commission.<\/a> The metro area\u2019s total employment now stands at 434,800 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Statewide, Louisiana marked its 51st consecutive month of year-over-year job growth\u2014a streak state officials credit to ongoing workforce development and economic diversification efforts. Total nonfarm employment across Louisiana reached 2,001,700 jobs in June, up 22,900 from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Private sector hiring remains a key driver, adding 20,000 jobs over the past year. Industries seeing the most growth include private education and health services (+13,000 jobs), leisure and hospitality (+4,700), and government (+2,900).<\/p>\n<p>Despite the gains, Louisiana\u2019s unemployment rate edged up to 4.5% in June, slightly higher than last year\u2019s 4.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Baton Rouge was one of the state\u2019s top-performing metros in June, with only New Orleans seeing larger annual gains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laworks.net\/Downloads\/LMI\/LMIPressRelease_20250718_State.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">See the full release. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baton Rouge\u2019s job market continues its steady climb, adding 1,800 jobs in June 2025 and 4,900 over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-22619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}