The Utah and national unemployment rates held steady in April, although Utah experienced job growth of an estimated 2.1 percent during the past 12 months.
Figures released by the Utah Department of Workforce Services show Utah added 36,000 jobs in nonfarm jobs since April 2025, leaving the state with 1,778,100 employed people.
Meanwhile, Utah’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in April remained at 3.1 percent, the same as in March, leaving 57,520 Utahns without jobs. Nationally, the unemployment rate stayed at 4.2 percent, with job growth of 1.2 percent year over year and a tenth of a Please log in to see the rest of this story.
