Employment in Clark County went up, up, up in June, with nonfarm employment rising by 1,100 jobs. The number reflects Banfield Pet Hospital’s moving its headquarters — and 650 employees — from Portland to Vancouver.
“Even without that, it was a good month for job creation,” said Scott Bailey, regional economist at the state Employment Security Department.
The department reported Tuesday that the county kept up its rapid job growth rate of 4.5 percent, or 6,800 more jobs than in the same month one year earlier. That’s a higher rate than the Portland metro area (3.1 percent), Washington (3.1) or the country as a whole (1.7 percent).
The “boring good news report,” as Bailey described it, said that all major sectors added jobs over the year. The largest increase was in the management of companies, or corporate offices, which rose by 700 jobs. Construction, manufacturing, trade, transportation and utilities, and leisure and hospitality each added a few hundred jobs.
