Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation
Nevada’s small businesses added 12,000 more jobs to the state’s labor market in the second quarter of 2015 than in 2014, according to figures released Friday by the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.
As of the second quarter, employment in firms with less than 100 employees totaled 581,000, which is just 4,000 jobs shy of the pre-recession peak in 2007, said Bill Anderson, chief economist for Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.
“Actually, this is the first time that small business employment in Nevada has exceeded 580,000 since then,” Anderson said. “Over the course of the recession, nearly 75,000 jobs were lost in small business establishments. As the recovery has unfolded, more than 70,000 of those jobs have been added back.”
Year-over-year, employment gains have been recorded in each of the past 18 quarters.
