Workers in Connecticut sense the most sluggish hiring momentum of all 50 states, polling and research firm Gallup Inc. said Wednesday.
Gallup’s Job Creation Index said that Connecticut workers’ perceptions about whether their employers are expanding, reducing, or not changing their workforces remained flat in 2014.
The index has consistently ranked Connecticut among the lowest states.
Maine, Vermont and Rhode Island were also in the bottom 10 for 2014.
In Connecticut, 33 percent of workers said their employers were hiring, while 43 percent said their employers were shrinking the workforce. Another 17 percent said the labor force was unchanged.
North Dakota ranked the highest, which Gallup attributed to its recent oil boom.
Gallup conducted more than 201,000 interviews across the country to compile the index, including 2,503 in Connecticut. Margin of error for individual states were no higher than 6 percent, and most were at 3 percent, Gallup said.
Connecticut added a net 26,700 jobs between Dec. 2013 and Dec. 2014, with its unemployment rate falling from 7.4 percent to 6.4 percent over that period, according to the Department of Labor.