Bamberg County’s unemployment rate for May was 8.4 percent, down from 8.7 percent in April, according to S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce numbers released on Friday.
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Nationally, May’s unemployment rate fell from 5 percent to 4.7 percent as many people left the labor force.
The Commonwealth’s May unemployment rate remains lower than the national rate of 4.7% reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Around the state, Honolulu City and County and Maui County unemployment rates were unchanged from April at 2.9 percent and 3.2 percent, respectively.
Sussex County, which typically sees a boom in hiring during the early summer months, recorded a rate decline of 0.4 points to 3.7 percent. Manufacturing lost 400 jobs over the same period.
Despite the decline in labor participation, the Department of Labor reports the number of people employed in Georgia rose by more than 14,000, while the number of unemployed residents fell by more than 10,000 – leveling out at its lowest since December 2007. The government defines unemployed people as those without jobs who are available for work and who make specific efforts to find employment. The Current Employment Statistics reports a gain of 2,300 jobs through May, a rate that result in 5,500 jobs gained by year’s end. The number of unemployed dropped by more than 5,000, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
Nine of the 11 industry sectors in the state added jobs.
Professional and business services and educational and health services saw the strongest jobs growth.
In May 2016, Kentucky’s civilian labor force was 1,980,221, a decrease of 2,448 individuals compared to the previous month.
Texas has added an estimated 171,800 seasonally adjusted jobs over the past year, including 200 nonfarm positions added in May. Despite the overall increase, six of the eleven supersectors jobs were down from May 2015.
Information lost 4,300 (-4.8 percent) jobs over the month. The estimate is 4,500 higher than the year ago level of 62,000.
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Mining and logging, construction, trade, transportation and utilities, and leisure and hospitality also were down, for a combined loss of more than 17,000 jobs.
