By Eric Strauss for NJBIZ

New Jersey got mostly good economic news in a new study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as both employment and wages grew in 13 of the Garden State’s 15 largest counties.

The BLS said Thursday that it compared data from the fourth quarter of 2014 to the fourth quarter of 2013 and found that, among the New Jersey counties with 75,000 or more workers, all but two saw job gains. In addition, all but two saw growth in the average weekly wage.

The two outliers in each category were different, however — for instance, Atlantic County registered the highest wage growth, at 7 percent, but was one of the two counties that saw employment decline, at -5 percent.

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