Table 1.  Private sector gross job gains and job losses, annual March to March

Nebraska

                                         Gross job gains                       Gross job losses
Year ended    Net change(1)  Total     Expanding     Opening        Total    Contracting    Closing
                                   establishments  establishments          establishments  establishments

March 1994       18,871      79,637      56,246       23,391         60,766     40,192       20,574
March 1995       32,368      90,048      63,727       26,321         57,680     36,216       21,464
March 1996       18,633      85,522      61,912       23,610         66,889     43,248       23,641
March 1997       15,026      80,051      55,873       24,178         65,025     46,021       19,004
March 1998       12,068      78,271      55,902       22,369         66,203     47,142       19,061
March 1999       20,335      89,919      69,048       20,871         69,584     46,423       23,161
March 2000       14,374      87,792      62,874       24,918         73,418     49,418       24,000
March 2001        3,831      85,147      56,847       28,300         81,316     57,055       24,261
March 2002      -10,184      75,815      50,744       25,071         85,999     64,736       21,263
March 2003       -1,896      76,724      51,022       25,702         78,620     55,766       22,854
March 2004        5,619      73,297      52,029       21,268         67,678     48,599       19,079
March 2005       12,360      77,231      55,673       21,558         64,871     46,300       18,571
March 2006        8,022      74,959      54,552       20,407         66,937     48,465       18,472
March 2007        9,271      78,413      56,390       22,023         69,142     51,096       18,046
March 2008       13,453      79,866      59,114       20,752         66,413     49,117       17,296
March 2009      -20,886      64,106      45,053       19,053         84,992     65,131       19,861
March 2010      -16,769      56,628      41,959       14,669         73,397     56,207       17,190
March 2011        7,950      65,588      47,474       18,114         57,638     42,677       14,961
March 2012       13,852      68,478      51,185       17,293         54,626     40,460       14,166

(1) Net change is the difference between total gross job gains and total gross job losses.