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

Tennessee

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

March 1994       91,505     290,258     211,026       79,232        198,753    126,239       72,514
March 1995       87,253     294,520     214,916       79,604        207,267    142,264       65,003
March 1996       31,896     296,958     189,714      107,244        265,062    187,321       77,741
March 1997       37,672     296,283     200,325       95,958        258,611    180,110       78,501
March 1998       44,632     310,956     210,403      100,553        266,324    175,879       90,445
March 1999       48,522     343,668     226,192      117,476        295,146    190,634      104,512
March 2000       57,382     333,687     226,987      106,700        276,305    180,769       95,536
March 2001      -19,337     279,653     195,659       83,994        298,990    211,673       87,317
March 2002      -66,830     253,961     176,559       77,402        320,791    225,268       95,523
March 2003       -1,533     272,022     185,866       86,156        273,555    187,781       85,774
March 2004       34,293     270,868     192,185       78,683        236,575    162,794       73,781
March 2005       42,382     276,161     196,800       79,361        233,779    162,095       71,684
March 2006       53,561     280,624     199,116       81,508        227,063    159,490       67,573
March 2007        6,154     260,880     184,026       76,854        254,726    185,895       68,831
March 2008        5,107     259,174     184,464       74,710        254,067    189,431       64,636
March 2009     -163,103     184,956     125,655       59,301        348,059    274,462       73,597
March 2010      -52,775     196,252     141,429       54,823        249,027    188,152       60,875
March 2011       40,865     230,045     173,754       56,291        189,180    134,420       54,760
March 2012       65,282     246,463     184,018       62,445        181,181    129,372       51,809

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