Workforce Investment Area 1
September 2009
Over the Month
• Total nonfarm
payroll employment up 100
• Goods-producing sector down 100
• Service-providing sector up 100
• Total unemployment down 700
• Unemployment rate down five-tenths of a
percentage points to 8.5 percent
Over the Year
• Total nonfarm payroll employment down 2,300
• Goods-producing sector down 1,300
• Service-providing sector down 1,100
• Total unemployment up 6,400
• Unemployment rate up four and eight-tenths
percentage points from 3.7 percent