Annual CU report projects Colorado job growth of 2.4 percent for 2017

Colorado will remain a top-10 state for employment growth in 2017 despite a lull in the oil and gas industry that will linger into the new year.

That’s according to the 52nd annual Colorado Business Economic Outlook released by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business on Monday morning.

The report notes that the state’s job growth for 2016 is expected to come in at 2.2 percent, with growth for 2017 projected at 2.4 percent. Those figures are down slightly compared to the three previous years, which all came in above 3 percent, but still strong compared to other states.

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