County Employment And Wages: Fourth Quarter 2003 — 2004-07-08

(This release was reissued on Tuesday, August 31, 2004, to correct data in the second column of table A and in the release text associated with table A. See page 5 for corrections to data from prior releases.) In December 2003, Clark County, Nev., and Loudoun County, Va., had the largest over-the-year percentage increases in employment among the largest counties in the U.S., according to preliminary data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. Clark and Loudoun counties experienced over-the-year employment gains of 5.2 percent each, compared with zero job growth in the nation. Collier County, Fla., had the largest over-the-year gain in average weekly wages in the fourth quarter of 2003, with an increase of 9.7 percent. The U.S. average weekly wage increased by 3.6 percent over the same time span.