Workforce Investment Area 3
December 2011:
Over the Month
• Total nonfarm
payroll employment up 100
• Goods-producing sector down 500
• Service-providing sector up 600
• Total unemployment up 400
• Unemployment rate up four-tenths of a percentage
point to 6.8 percent
Over the Year
• Total nonfarm payroll employment up
5,200
• Goods-producing sector up 2,500
• Service-providing sector up 2,600
• Total unemployment down 1,200
• Unemployment rate down one and one-half percentage
points from 8.3 percent