PITTSBURGH — A new report by Pittsburgh Works Together is sounding the alarm on the availability of industrial jobs in the Pittsburgh region.
The report, released this week, states that since 2019, the Pittsburgh metro is lagging behind neighboring regions when it comes to industrial or goods-producing jobs. Pittsburgh Works Together, a local business and organized labor alliance, used data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for the report.
“Nearly every other market in Pennsylvania is close to or above its pre-Covid total for goods-producing jobs. The total in the Pittsburgh region has shrunk by more than 10%,” the report brief reads.
Some of the regions that have seen growth in goods-producing jobs in Pennsylvania include Scranton, Lancaster, York and the Lehigh Valley. Philadelphia, Reading, Erie and Harrisburg have declined, along with Pittsburgh, though to a smaller extent. The report says that goods-producing jobs consist of factory jobs, construction and certain energy jobs such as coal mining and oil and gas drilling.
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