Employment

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Publish Date

09/19/2014

The District’s employment grew by 10,400 jobs in 2013, or 1.4 percent, however, DowntownDC BID area employment is estimated to not have changed in 2013 from its 2012 level of 182,000 jobs. The DowntownDC BID’s estimated loss of 1,200 to 1,400 federal jobs was offset by a combination of private sector job increases in professional services, associations and non-profits, higher education and restaurants and retail. The District’s largest growing employment sectors in 2013 were higher education and health care, sectors that historically have not been strong in the DowntownDC BID area. The 2013 opening of Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies brought over 200 full-time jobs to Downtown and another several hundred part-time positions.

The federal government’s workforce reduction over the past few years led to the federal government’s share of D.C. employment falling to 27 percent in 2013—its lowest level since 1990.