Jobs report: Utah adds 54,000 new jobs, reports 2.4% unemployment rate
Utah added an estimated 54,200 new jobs in the past 12 months, a 3.2% year-over-year increase, and the unemployment rate was 2.4.%.
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Utah added an estimated 54,200 new jobs in the past 12 months, a 3.2% year-over-year increase, and the unemployment rate was 2.4.%.
In mid-June, the Department of Workforce Services (DWS) released Utah's Employment Summary for May 2023. The data shows that there was an estimated increase of 2.9% across the past 12 months, with the economy adding a cumulative 48,900 jobs since May of 2022. The current job count for Utah stands at 1,727,100. With the seasonally-adjusted
Utah County’s unemployment stayed steady through April at 2.3%, according to the newest available data released by the Utah Department of Workforce Services. The state of Utah, as a whole, also remained at 2.3% unemployment. The state evaluates unemployment through multiple measures including by county, by metropolitan area and by industry. From April into May, […]
Utah’s unemployment rate has stayed at a low 2.3% (compared to 3.7% nationally), while 48,900 jobs have been added to the economy since May 2022.
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