Amber Warne is the Director of Upskilling and Advancement at Workforce Solutions Capital Area. She said the leisure and hospitality industry had the greatest regional job growth over the past year.

“The Austin metros leisure and hospitality industry grew 1,300 jobs from January to February. So this makes up about half of all jobs added since last month,” Warne said. “Since last year, the leisure and hospitality industry added 13,400 jobs, which is a 13.4% growth.”

Warne said as of April 2022, the industry had already regained all of the previous jobs lost from the pandemic.

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