Utah’s unemployment has continued to hold steady since the beginning of the year. For the fourth straight month in April, the Utah Department of Workforce Services (DWS) reported a jobless rate of 2.8 percent, meaning there are about 50,600 state residents without jobs.
Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate ticked up one-tenth of a percentage point to 3.9 percent.
Utah’s nonfarm payroll employment for April increased an estimated 2.1 percent across the past 12 months, with the state’s economy adding a cumulative 36,800 jobs since April 2023. Utah’s current job count stands at Please log in to see the rest of this story.
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