{"id":1004191438,"date":"2017-09-30T09:50:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T17:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004191438"},"modified":"2022-12-09T01:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:18:57","slug":"employment-picture-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/employment-picture-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Employed and unemployed persons by occupation; not seasonally adjusted; numbers in thousands<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004191325\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/1017_labor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004191325\" data-attachment-id=\"1004191325\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/employment-picture-14\/1017_labor\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/1017_labor.png\" data-orig-size=\"800,827\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1017_labor\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;1Unemployed total includes a small number of persons whose last job was in the Armed Forces.&lt;br \/&gt;\nSource: Bureau of Labor Statistics&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/1017_labor.png?w=800\" class=\"wp-image-1004191325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/1017_labor.png\" alt=\"1Unemployed total includes a small number of persons whose last job was in the Armed Forces. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics\" width=\"500\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/1017_labor.png 800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/1017_labor.png?resize=290,300 290w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/1017_labor.png?resize=768,794 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004191325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><sup>1<\/sup>Unemployed total includes a small number of persons whose last job was in the Armed Forces.<br \/> Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The total number of employed people from August 2016 to August 2017 increased by 1.2 percent, or 1,772 people, while the total number of unemployed people decreased by 8.9 percent, or 709 people. Year-over-year, the largest difference for employment was in the Transportation and Material Moving occupations, with a rise of 4.3 percent. Following that were increases for Office and Administrative Support (3.6%) and Production, Transportation and Material Moving (2.5%). For unemployment, the most significant decrease was in the Transportation and Material Moving occupations with 23.1 percent, followed by Sales and Related Occupations (-12.9%) and Production, Transportation and Material Moving (-12.6%). The overall unemployment rate dropped 10 percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total number of employed people from August 2016 to August 2017 increased by 1.2 percent, or 1,772 people, while the total number of unemployed people decreased by 8.9 percent, or 709 people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":749,"featured_media":1004191325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37757,21742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004191438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rc-labor-demographics","category-latest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Employment Picture - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/employment-picture-14\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Employment Picture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The total number of employed people from August 2016 to August 2017 increased by 1.2 percent, or 1,772 people, while the total number of unemployed people decreased by 8.9 percent, or 709 people.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/employment-picture-14\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-09-30T17:50:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-09T09:18:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/1017_labor.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"827\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michelle Matteson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/employment-picture-14\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/employment-picture-14\/\",\"name\":\"Employment Picture - Commercial Property Executive\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/employment-picture-14\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/employment-picture-14\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/1017_labor.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-09-30T17:50:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-09T09:18:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/ce63156240559ff77c3e312e47502b33\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/employment-picture-14\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/employment-picture-14\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/employment-picture-14\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/1017_labor.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/1017_labor.png\",\"width\":800,\"height\":827,\"caption\":\"1Unemployed total includes a small number of persons whose last job was in the Armed Forces. 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