Pasadena, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/19/2010 -- New York City’s unemployment rate fell for the sixth month in a roll to 9.5 percent, mainly as a result of hiring by financial firms. The data is from the state’s Labor Department. The state’s unemployment rate was 8.2 percent, which was below the national average.

The fall in the city’s jobless rate comes from hiring in the service sector. The main hiring was done in the financial industry, which added 2,400 jobs. Other sectors were professional and business services (4,500) and hospitality and leisure (3,400).

NewYorkCrossing.com, a niche job site focusing on just jobs available in the New York city metro area has been able to dig up almost 78,000 jobs in all the sectors. “It’s not just Wall Street’s that hiring in the city. There are people needed in all sorts of service industry jobs. From butchers to computer specialists, the city needs them all.” says A. Harrison Barnes, CEO of NewYorkCrossing.

According to the niche job site, the sectors doing the most hiring are: accounting (5,979), financial services (8,555), engineering (3,698), information technology (14,573), healthcare (6,929), sales (6,350) as well as 2,757 jobs paying over 100K.