MSA Job Performance & Recovery from the Pandemic to March 2022

Following the loss of 22 million jobs in the U.S. in the first two months of the pandemic in 2020, all but 1.6 million have been recovered – numerically speaking.   That recovery has not been uniform across the U.S., however.   Among the 380 Metropolitan Statistical Aras (MSAs) only 123 (32.4 percent) have clawed back to at least pre-pandemic job numbers as of March 2022 compared to February 2020.