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Natrona County Continues to Top Unemployment Charts Get our free mobile app Over the course of the pandemic, Natrona county has been pretty consistent at being the top county when it comes to unemployment, reaching a peak of 12.7% in April of last year, with Crook county often having the lowest unemployment. David Bullard, senior economist for the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, Research & Planning, said the reason for the high unemployment numbers in Natrona county is due in large part to the energy sector. Natrona county gets a lot of its jobs due to the energy sector, and Bullar...
Natrona County Continues to Top Unemployment Charts Get our free mobile app Over the course of the pandemic, Natrona county has been pretty consistent at being the top county when it comes to unemployment, reaching a peak of 12.7% in April of last year, with Crook county often having the lowest unemployment. David Bullard, senior economist for the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, Research & Planning, said the reason for the high unemployment numbers in Natrona county is due in large part to the energy sector. Natrona county gets a lot of its jobs due to the energy sector, and Bullar...
“From March 2020 to March 2021, unemployment rates decreased in 17 counties and increased in six counties,” the department said. “The largest decreases were reported in Washakie (down from 7.0% to 5.3%), Sublette (down from 9.4% to 7.7%), and Big Horn (down from 7.6% to 6.1%) counties.” The report also showed that unemployment rates rose to 7.9% in Natrona, 6.3% in Converse and 6.6% in Campbell counties. A February jobs report stated that 26,733 jobs were lost in the state from the second quarter of 2019 to the second quarter of 2020, department officials said. The leisure and hospit...