Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry announced that the state’s unemployment rate once again held steady over the previous month.
The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate stayed at 3.4 percent over the month of March, marking the sixth straight month unemployment went unchanged. It is also one-tenth of a percentage point lower than March 2023.
Pennsylvania’s Civilian labor force, which is the estimated number of residents working or looking for work, was up 20,000 over the month due to a gain in resident employment.
Total non-farm jobs went up 15,300 over the month to a record-high total of 6,148,900, marking the eighth consecutive record high for Pennsylvania’s job count. Once again, jobs went up in eight of the 11 industry super-sectors with the largest gains in leisure and hospitality. Two super-sectors – financial activities and education & health services – rose to record-high levels in March.
The national unemployment rate declined by one-tenth of a point to 3.8 percent.
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