New York led all major markets in year-over-year employment gains in June, adding 91,700 new jobs, with the bulk of the gains coming from the education and health services sector. Together with the government sector, 99.9% of the city's job gains during the past year were in just two industries, according to RealPage’s June metro employment update.
New York’s performance mirrored a trend across the country, with the education and health services sector driving employment gains. The following two markets leading employment gains in June – Philadelphia and Los Angeles – saw education and health services sector job growth of 67% and 129%, respectively. Orlando was the only top 10 market with a larger share of employment gains in a different industry sector, posting 31% growth in jobs in leisure and hospitality services.
Philadelphia added 46,500 jobs for the year ending June 2025, while Los Angeles added 41,700 jobs. Charlotte took the fourth spot on the June job growth list with 36,100 new jobs and Orlando placed fifth with 31,600 new jobs. The following five markets on the list were Houston with 31,100 new jobs, Chicago with 30,600, Dallas with 30,300, Raleigh/Durham with 25,900 and Salt Lake City with 23,400 new jobs.
New to the top 10 job creation markets in June were Los Angeles, Chicago and Raleigh/Durham, which replaced Washington, D.C., San Antonio and Miami. D.C dropped from 6th place on the list in May to 40th in June following recent cuts in government employment, according to the report.
Together, the top 10 markets added a total of 388,900 jobs in the year ending June, which was about 94,600 more than the same 10 markets last June and 55,800 more than in May. Markets 11 through 20 added 195,700, an increase of 32.1%.
Twenty of the RealPage top 150 markets reported annual job losses for the year, four fewer than last month. Job losses continued in the Bay Area as well as in Midwest markets such as St. Louis, Milwaukee, Madison and Des Moines, RealPage noted.
“Although metro-level job gains have improved this month, they are expected to slow somewhat in the coming year as economic uncertainties and tariff concerns weigh on employers' minds,” the property management software predicts.
Markets with the largest annual percentage change in employment, which typically are smaller markets rather than large population centers, included Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where job growth increased 5.2%, College Station, Texas, which grew 4.2% and Charleston, South Carolina, which was up 4.1%. Fayetteville, Arkansas and Boise City, Idaho, rounded out the top five job change leaders with 3.7% and 3.2% employment growth, respectively.
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