Mayor’s job figures just don’t work

Mayor de Blasio’s jobs plan has cost the city $300 million so far — and created just 3,000 jobs.

The figures emerged during a contentious City Council hearing on the program, New York Works, that saw Economic Development Corp. President James Patchett being grilled on whether the city was actually tallying real jobs, or simply projecting jobs it believed would be created.

Patchett said the program had “laid the groundwork to create nearly 19,000 goodpaying jobs,” a metric the city defines as a job that pays — or will soon pay — at least $50,000 a year.

But much fewer jobs were actually created in the year since the plan launched. “I would say of the 19,000, we believe we’re at — we’re at about 3,000 of those actual jobs, people working, today. But I want to be clear, clear, we’re doing annual updates, we’re doing annual updates, we did our best to prepare for this hearing because we were holding it today,” Patchett said.

Patchett only offered up the figure after being pressed repeatedly by City Councilman Ritchie Torres (D-Bronx) — who had noted the 19,000 figure the city was sharing was simply a projected jobs figure, not actual jobs created.

“The general public took it to mean that the mayor would in fact create 100,000 real jobs for real people in the real world. Anyone who heard the mayor’s State of the City would come away believing that those 100,000 jobs were actual jobs or would be actual jobs in 10 years, but anyone who believes that is operating under a false impression,” Torres said.