The number of San Antonio construction jobs lost last year earned the city a low ranking on a recent report. Visit http://sanantonio.jobing.com/jobs/construction to see current job openings.

The most recent report from the Associated General Contractors of America gave San Antonio's construction industry a rank of 106. The area lost 100 construction jobs, a decline of .2 percent, between December 2009 and December 2010.

Of the 337 metro areas included in the report, 232 lost construction jobs during that 12-month period, while employment in 38 areas remained unchanged. Declines were most likely caused by severe winter weather and the culmination of funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

"It looks like severe winter weather put an early halt to a number of projects just as stimulus and base realignment work was already starting to wind down," AGC Chief Economist Ken Simonson said in a statement. "Bad weather and poor timing conspired to make December a pretty unhappy month for a lot of construction workers around the country."

Areas that saw the biggest declines in construction employment include:

1. Las Vegas-Paradise, Nev. - 10,700 jobs
2. Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, Ill. - 10,500 jobs
3. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, Cailf. - 7,900 jobs
4. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif. - 5,900 jobs
5. Northern Virginia - 5,700 jobs

The areas that experienced the biggest construction employment gains include:

1. Columbus, Ohio - 2,700 jobs
2. Dallas-Plano, Texas - 2,100 jobs
3. Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, Ariz. - 1,900 jobs
4. Pittsburgh, Pa. - 1,800 jobs
5. Greeley, Colo. - 1,400 jobs

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