San Diego County’s rate is below the statewide rate of 5.7 percent and above the 4.8 percent rate nationwide, according to EDD data.
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The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the jobless rate held at 5.4 percent in October but the state added jobs for the first time since spring. However, people entered the labor market even faster than employers created jobs, sending the unemployment rate higher.
The national report showed payrolls across the USA climbed by 271,000 in October, the strongest increase this year, following a gain of 137,000 the month before.
Tennessee’s unemployment rate continues to decline, Tennessee Labor & Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips announced Thursday afternoon.
Professional and business services added 4,400 jobs, with additions reported across all subsectors.
Service industries in general accounted for all of Texas’ job growth last month, while good producing industries lost jobs. Shelby County is lowest at 4 percent.
Leisure and hospitality’s job growth rate leads the state for the 12 months through October at 5.3 percent.
The New Haven labor market was hit hard in October, losing 1,400 jobs last month.
Nonfarm jobs in California totaled 16,253,100 in October, an increase of 41,200 jobs over the month, according to a survey of businesses that is larger and less variable statistically. West Virginia had the highest unemployment rate at 6.9 percent. Vallejo at 7.6 percent and Rio Vista at 11.2 percent complete the list.
Overall, average hourly pay increased 2.5 percent in October from a year earlier, the biggest annual gain since 2009.
Gov. Rick Scott, who discounts the ebb and flow in government jobs, focused on the spurt in private sector jobs.
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Florida’s jobless figure with seasonal adjustments also decreased, dropping from 5.2 percent in September to 5.1 percent in October. In October, the total number of prime-age people either working or seeking work rose 182,000. That reflected a 1.9 percent increase, to go with a 3.8 percent increase for the past 12 months.
