Workforce Investment Area 7

September 2009:

Over the Month

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment up 300
•    Goods-producing sector down 100
•    Service-providing sector up 400
•    Total unemployment down 200
•    Unemployment rate down two-tenths of a percentage point to 8.2 percent

Over the Year

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment down 1,900
•    Goods-producing sector down 1000
•    Service-providing sector down 900
•    Total unemployment up 4,900
•    Unemployment rate up four and four-tenths percentage points from 3.8 percent