County Employment And Wages: Fourth Quarter 2006 — 2007-07-25

(NOTE: Tables 1 and 2 in the HTML and text versions of this news release were corrected online on July 27, 2007. The PDF and print versions were correct as originally issued.) As of December 2006, three counties heavily affected by Hurricane Katrina had recovered some of the job losses caused by the storm. Harrison County, Miss., had the largest over-the-year percentage in- crease in employment among the largest counties in the U.S., accord- ing to preliminary data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics of the U.S. Department of Labor. Harrison County, which includes the cities of Gulfport and Biloxi, experienced an over-the-year em- ployment gain of 18.7 percent compared with national job growth of 1.6 percent. Orleans and Jefferson counties in Louisiana had over-the- year gains of 12.2 and 10.5 percent, respectively. Employment gains in these counties reflected a partial employment recovery following substantial job losses that occurred in 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina.