2024 Employment Picture
April 26, 2024
The latest year-over-year comparison by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, updated monthly.
Numbers in thousands
From March 2023 to March 2024, the total number of employed people increased by 0.38 percent, a total of 615,000 people. Over the same period, the total number of unemployed went up by 9.2 percent, an increase of 561,000 people.
Like last month, the largest year-over-year employment growth was recorded for occupations in the farming, fishing and forestry industries, an increase of 8.9 percent. Installation, maintenance and repair occupations came in second, with an increase of 3.06 percent, moving up a rank from February. In third place were jobs in natural resources, construction and maintenance, which saw an uptick of 2.4 percent.
Year-over-year, the unemployment rate increased by 0.3 percent.
—Posted on April 26, 2024
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