Workforce Investment Area 4


September 2009:

Over the Month 

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment up 1,300
•    Goods-producing sector down 100
•    Service-providing sector up 1,400
•    Total unemployment down 600
•    Unemployment rate down six-tenths of a  percentage point to 10.4 percent

Over the Year

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment down 1,000
•    Goods-producing sector down 1,200
•    Service-providing sector up 200
•    Total unemployment up 5,000
•    Unemployment rate up six percentage points from 4.4 percent