August 2014 Portland Economic Indicators
Employment in the Portland region has grown by 3.1 percent over the last year. According to Christian Kaylor of the Oregon State Employment Department… “The Portland job growth rate is the 9th fastest among the 50 largest metro regions in the US and the fastest on the West Coast. The current growth rate of 3.1 percent is just slightly less than the 3.3 percent growth we saw in 2006, which was the fastest growth in the last 17 years.”
August 2014 – Portland Economic Indicators