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