The statewide unemployment rate went up slightly in the month of July.
PA’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate went up by half of a percentage point to 13.7 percent in July. The July 2020 unemployment rate is 9.3 percentage points higher than where it was in 2019. The civilian labor force was up 88,000 over the month due to gains of 44,000 in both resident employment and unemployment.
Between May and July, Pennsylvania recovered nearly 48 percent of the total nonfarm jobs that it had lost in the first two months of the Coronavirus pandemic in March and April. The total number of nonfarm jobs in July went up by 97,900 to 5,525,900. Jobs increased in seven of eleven industry super-sectors, with the largest gains seen in the leisure and hospitality industries, which went up 47,100 jobs from June.
The federal unemployment rate fell nine-tenths of a percentage point to 10.2 percent in July.
Statistics for specific regions of Pennsylvania will be released later this month.
