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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.
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for information about job terminations in Alabama.
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August 2022
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July 2022
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Alabama:
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United States:
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Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally August adjusted unemployment rate held steady at 2.6%. August’s rate is well below August 2021’s rate of 3.3%. August’s rate represents 58,958 unemployed persons, a new record low, compared to 59,359 in July and 74,505 in August 2021.
The number of people counted as employed also reached a new record high, increasing by 67,881 over the year to 2,234,669. An increase in the civilian labor force in August also raised its level to a new record high, gaining 52,334 people over the year to total 2,293,627.
Over the year, wage and salary employment increased 36,800, with gains in the construction sector (+9,800), the education and health services sector (+9,300), and the trade, transportation, and utilities sector (+7,100), among others.
Wage and salary employment increased in August by 1,500. Monthly gains were seen in the professional and business services sector (+3,100), the education and health services sector (+2,700), and the government sector (+2,300), among others.
All 67 counties saw their unemployment rates decline over year, and all counties saw their unemployment rates hold steady or decline over the month.
Counties with the lowest unemployment rates are: Shelby County at 2.0%, Marshall and Cullman Counties at 2.2%, and Morgan, Limestone, Chilton, and Blount Counties at 2.3%. Counties with the highest unemployment rates are: Wilcox County at 10.0%, Lowndes County at 7.4%, and Perry County at 7.2%.
Major cities with the lowest unemployment rates are: Vestavia Hills at 1.6%, Homewood and Trussville at 1.8%, and Alabaster and Hoover at 1.9%. Major cities with the highest unemployment rates are: Selma at 8.5%, Prichard at 6.5%, and Anniston at 4.6%.
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