In our first installment of the Metro Tucson Employment Report, note that according to August 2015 figures, Metro Tucson unemployment stood at 6.2% with 0.9% job growth over a 12-month period. Relative to the ten U. S. cities with most comparable MSA ranking, Tucson’s job growth ranked ninth.
The market sector with the highest gains was Educational and Health Services, capturing 48.5% of the new jobs over the trailing 12-month period, followed by Professional and Business Services, which represented another 30.0% of the job gains.
Special thank you to our colleagues at Cushman & Wakefield of Arizona for marketing, research and production of this report.
