Workforce Investment Area 5

September 2009:

Over the Month:

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment up 100
•    Goods-producing down 100
•    Service-providing sector up 100
•    Total unemployment down 500
•    Unemployment rate down seven-tenths of a percentage point to 9.8 percent

Over the Year

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment down 1,800
•    Goods-producing sector down 800
•    Service-providing sector down 1,000
•    Total unemployment up 3,700
•    Unemployment rate up five and three-tenths percentage points from 4.5 percent