{"id":895352,"date":"2026-10-26T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895352\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:28:09","slug":"capital-area-has-record-high-employment-fastest-job-growth-among-comparable-areas-new-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895352\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Area has record-high employment, fastest job growth among comparable areas, new report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

BATON ROUGE \u2013 The Greater Baton Rouge area has record-high employment and the fastest job growth among comparable metropolitan areas, an economic report released Monday says.<\/p>\n

The Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership’s third-quarter report says that the Capital Area recorded 442,500 nonfarm jobs in July, with these numbers holding through September. Construction made up for the bulk of new jobs, reaching a record 58,700 jobs as projects including the Hyundai Steel plant<\/a> in Ascension Parish and Hut 8’s multibillion-dollar data center<\/a> in West Feliciana Parish get off the ground.<\/p>\n

The Capital Area added 13,700 jobs over the past year, a 3.2% increase.<\/p>\n

Baton Rouge, the report says, ranked first among Louisiana metros in private sector weekly earnings at $1,236.65, with pay growing 5.5% over the past year, ahead of inflation rates.<\/p>\n

Regional unemployment also fell to 3.5% in August, the lowest rate on record. Unemployment claims are also down 29% from last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amid a global surge in diesel prices,<\/a> the Capital Area recorded the cheapest diesel prices among peer metro areas. The report adds that Louisiana industrial customers pay the lowest electricity rates in the South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE \u2013 The Greater Baton Rouge area has record-high employment and the fastest job growth among comparable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[175082,28,12514,4084,375341,375344,375343,375342,134,145],"class_list":["post-895352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-batonrouge","tag-business","tag-construction","tag-employment","tag-greaterbatonrougeeconomicpartnership","tag-hut8","tag-hyundaisteel","tag-jobgrowth","tag-jobs","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895352","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=895352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}