Workforce Investment Area 1
December 2011
Over the Month
• Total nonfarm
payroll employment up 100
• Goods-producing sector unchanged
• Service-providing sector up 200
• Total unemployment up 1,000
• Unemployment rate up eight-tenths of a
percentage point to 8.4 percent
Over the Year
• Total nonfarm payroll employment up 300
• Goods-producing sector up 800
• Service-providing sector down 500
• Total unemployment down 2,400
• Unemployment rate down one and eight-tenths
percentage points from 10.2 percent.