The state Department of Labor and Industry has released the first unemployment rate that shows the full effect of the Coronavirus outbreak on Pennsylvania’s job scene.
The employment situation report for April 2020 shows that the unemployment rate went up 9.3 percentage points to 15.1 percent. This mirrors the national unemployment rate, which went up just more than 10 percentage points to 14.7 percent in March.
The total number of non-farm jobs in the state went down 1,024,100 over the month to 5,014,200 in April, with jobs down in each of the 11 industry super sectors. The leisure and hospitality field had the largest decline in jobs for the second consecutive month.
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