{"id":352347,"date":"2025-12-16T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/352347\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:07:12","slug":"moco-vs-the-region-total-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/352347\/","title":{"rendered":"MoCo vs the Region: Total Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryperspective.com\/2025\/12\/12\/mocos-economy-vs-the-region-introduction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Part One<\/a> covered the methodology of this series.\u00a0 Let\u2019s get started by looking at data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on total employment in the D.C. region\u2019s ten largest jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>First, let\u2019s look at total employment in MoCo since 2001, the first year in the series.\u00a0 It has hovered around 450,000 payroll jobs for a long time, falling during the Great Recession, rising afterwards and falling again during the pandemic.\u00a0 The preliminary job count in 2024 (460,853) is below the period peak (472,495 in 2019) and is only 2.4% larger than its 2001 level (449,881).\u00a0 That is minimal job growth over 23 years.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MoCo-Total-Employment-Growth-2001-24.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"779\" height=\"667\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The chart below shows one-year growth of total employment in 2024 for MoCo and the other nine large jurisdictions in the region.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Total-Employment-Growth-by-Jurisdiction-2023-24.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"899\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>MoCo had just 0.4% growth in total employment last year.\u00a0 That\u2019s below the region total and behind six of our nine competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The chart below shows 2024 total employment as a percentage of 2019 total employment.\u00a0 This measures the degree to which each jurisdiction has bounced back from the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Total-Employment-2024-Percentage-of-2019.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"906\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>MoCo\u2019s jobs base has not recovered from the pandemic and is second-to-last on this measure.\u00a0 Only Alexandria did worse.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the chart below shows total employment growth from 2007 (the year before the Great Recession) to 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Total-Employment-Growth-by-Jurisdiction-2007-24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"903\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>MoCo\u2019s jobs base has barely grown at all in 17 years.\u00a0 Again, only Alexandria has fared worse.<\/p>\n<p>We will look at private employment next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Adam Pagnucco. Part One covered the methodology of this series.\u00a0 Let\u2019s get started by looking at data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6076,28,101,175380],"class_list":["post-352347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-economy-2025-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352347","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=352347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}