Published: Austin Business Journal
By: Dallas Business Journal
Date: July 25, 2011

When it comes to adding jobs, nobody is bigger than Texas.

That's the conclusion of an analysis of nonfarm jobs between June 2006 and June 2011 from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by On Numbers, a feature of American City Business Journals.

On Numbers reported that Texas added 537,500 nonfarm jobs during that period, which is nearly 10 times as many as second-place finisher Louisiana, which added 55,900 jobs. North Dakota topped the country in percentage gain at 11,84 percent.

Texas had a 5.35 percent increase in jobs during that period.

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American City Business Journals is the parent company of the Austin Business Journal.

Job growth in Austin last month was flat, while the Central Texas region experienced a significant increase in unemployment, according to the most recent Texas Workforce Commission statistics. The jobless rate rose to 7.6 percent as two sectors shed more than 1,000 jobs.