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HWOL The Help Wanted Online Data Series™ fills a critical gap in the current
U.S. economic indicators by providing timely monthly measures of labor demand (advertised vacancies) at the national, regional, State and metropolitan area levels.
These monthly measures are comparable in timing and geographic detail to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly measures of labor supply (unemployment).
The Catalogue of Workforce Information Sources, formerly the Environmental Scan,
has been finalized by the Employment and Training Administration. You can
find it here.
Click here
for information about job terminations in Alabama.
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March 2022
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February 2022
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Alabama:
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United States:
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Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted March unemployment rate is 2.9%, down from February’s rate of 3.0%, and below March 2021’s rate of 3.7%.
March’s rate represents 65,485 unemployed persons, the lowest ever on record, compared to 68,663 in February and 82,443 in March 2021.
Over the year, wage and salary employment increased 40,100, with gains in the trade, transportation, and utilities sector (+11,900), the leisure and hospitality sector (+10,500), and the construction sector (+4,500), among others.
Counties with the lowest unemployment rates are: Shelby County at 1.7%, Cullman County at 1.8%, and Morgan, Marshall, and Limestone Counties at 1.9%. Counties with the highest unemployment rates are: Wilcox County at 8.8%, Lowndes County at 6.5%, and Perry County at 6.3%.
Major cities with the lowest unemployment rates are: Alabaster and Vestavia Hills at 1.4%, Homewood at 1.5%, and Hoover and Trussville at 1.6%. Major cities with the highest unemployment rates are: Selma at 6.9%, Prichard at 5.0%, and Anniston at 4.7%.
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