State forecasts 200K new jobs within decade

State Labor Department officials are projecting Connecticut’s economy will have added more than 201,100 jobs through 2030 compared to employment levels in 2020.

The decade long employment growth rate is expected to be 12 percent. The Connecticut increase is 4.3 percent higher than the U.S. projection of 7.7 percent.

Patrick Flaherty, the Connecticut Labor Department’s director of research, said the growth rate is directly related to the jobs lost during the pandemic. The state was hit hard during the pandemic, with nearly 290,000 jobs lost, but has since had a stable and steady recovery, according to Flaherty.

The largest employment gain in Connecticut’s economy are expected to come in the accommodation and food Services sector, which is expected to add nearly 35,000 jobs between 2020 and 2030. If that occurs, it would represent a growth rate of 33.4 percent.

After the accommodation and food services sector, the next largest employment growth is expected to come in health care.

The sector is expected to 20,455 jobs in Connecticut through 2030. That represents a 9.5 percent growth rate over 2020 levels.

Within the health care sector, the majority of the employment growth over the course of the current decade is expected to come from ambulatory health care services. Such services are defined as any health care activity that is performed on an outpatient basis, like diagnostic tests, treatments, or rehab visits.

Employment levels at hospitals in the state as well as at nursing and residential care are expected to add only 3,000 jobs in each category.

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JoAnn Ryan is president and CEO of the Northwest Connecticut Chamber of Commerce. You can reach her by email at joann@nwctchamberofcommerce.org or phone: 860-482-6586.

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