After a couple of months of moderate increases, Utah’s unemployment rate leveled off in December at 3.5 percent, the same as it was in November, according to data released by the Utah Department of Workforce Services (DWS). The rate means about 63,620 Utahns are unemployed.
The November national jobless rate was up one-tenth of a percentage point at 4.2 percent.
Utah’s nonfarm payroll employment for November increased an estimated 1.8 percent across the past 12 months, with the state’s economy adding a cumulative Please log in to see the rest of this story.
