Ohio Unemployment Rate Stays at 7.2% in July
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Ohio’s unemployment rate in July was 7.2%, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported today. The July unemployment rate was unchanged from the month before, as well as from the July 2012 rate.
The number of workers unemployed in Ohio last month was 416,000, up 3,000 from 413,000 in June. The number of unemployed has increased by 1,000 over the past 12 months from 415,000.
Nonagricultural wage and salary employment in the state increased 5,300 from a revised 5,205,600 in June to 5,210,900 in July, according to the latest business establishment survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor in cooperation with ODJFS.
Goods-producing industries, at 852,000, lost 500 jobs over the month, and a 3,100-job loss in construction outweighed gains in manufacturing of 2,400 jobs and of 200 jobs in logging. The private service-providing sector gained 9,100 jobs in July, for a total 3,216,800. Employment sectors seeing increases over the month included leisure and hospitality (4,500), trade, transportation and utilities (2,500) other services (2,100), educational and health services (1,400) and financial activities (800).
The information sector lost 1,200 jobs in July, and professional and business services cut 1,000 positions. Government employment, at 746,100, decreased 3,300, as a 3,900-position decline in local and 500-job loss in federal employment exceeded a 1,400-position gain in state government.
Over the year, nonagricultural wage and salary employment grew 37,600. Goods-producing industries added 1,800 jobs over the year. Manufacturing gained 8,200 jobs due to a 6,000-job gain in durable goods and a 2,200-job gain in non-durable goods. Construction and mining and logging lost 6,300 and 100 jobs respectively. The private service-providing sector added 45,700 jobs.
Educational and health services, with 20,800 more jobs, and leisure and hospitality, with an additional 14,600 jobs, saw the biggest over-the-year gains. Other sectors reporting gains were professional and business services (6,500), trade, transportation, and utilities (4,500) and other services (2,300). Sectors losing jobs included (2,400) and financial activities (600). Government employment declined 9,800 as losses in local (8,700) and federal (2,500) government exceeded gains in state government (1,400).
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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