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Ohio Unemployment Holds at 7% in May
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The statewide unemployment rate held firm at 7%, in May, unchanged from April's rate, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported this morning. The May unemployment date was down from 7.3% a year earlier.
Nonfarm and salary employment in Ohio increased 32,100 over the month, from a revised 5,181,800 in April to 5,213,900 in May. Ohio's over-the-month increase was the largest in the United States for May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, followed by Texas, up 19,500, and Michigan, up 18,100. The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in May was 405,000, up from 400,000 in April, and has decreased by 15,000 in the past 12 months from 420,000.
Pennsylvania had the largest over-the-month decrease inemployment in May, down 9,200. Its unemployment rate was 7.5% in May, down from 7.6% in April and from 7.9% in May 2012.
Goods-producing industries, at 856,300, gained 4,700 jobs over the month, ODJFS reported. Sectors seeing increases included construction (up 3,900) and manufacturing (up 800). Private service-providing industries, at 3,604,200, gained 20,200 jobs. Employment increased in professional and business services (up 7,300), educational and health services (up 6,700), leisure and hospitality (up 5,800) and financial activities (up 900). Sectors seeing declines included trade, transportation, and utilities and information, each of which was down 300.
Over the year, nonagricultural wage and salary employment grew 33,200. Goods-producing industries increased 4,100 over the year. Construction lost 4,200 jobs. Manufacturing gained 8,200 jobs in durable goods (a 4,800 increase) and nondurable goods (up 3,400). Private service-providing industries increased 34,700, with gains in educational and health services (up 17,500), leisure and hospitality (up 11,500), professional and business services (up 2,400), financial activities (up 2,100), trade, transportation, and utilities (up 1,400), and other services (up 1,000). Information lost 1,200 jobs over the year.
Government employment, at 753,400, increased 7,200 over the month with gains at the local (up 6,300), state (up 600), and federal (up 300) levels. Over the year, government jobs decreased 5,600 through losses at the state (down 3,400), federal (down 2,100), and local (down 100) levels.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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