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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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April 2023
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March 2023
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Alabama:
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United States:
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Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted April unemployment rate is 2.2%, down from March’s rate of 2.3%, and below April 2022’s rate of 2.5%. April’s rate represents 51,462 unemployed persons, a new record low, compared to 53,017 in March and 57,712 in April 2022.
Over the year, wage and salary employment increased 40,800 to 2,143,700, with gains in the private education and health services sector (+8,000), the government sector (+6,300), and the professional and business services sector (+6,100), among others.
Over the month, wage and salary employment increased in April by 7,900. Monthly gains were seen in the leisure and hospitality sector (+3,800), the financial activities sector (+1,700), and the private education and health services sector (+1,300), among others.
Counties with the lowest unemployment rates are: Shelby County at 1.3%, Morgan, Marshall, Madison, and Cullman Counties at 1.4%, and St. Clair, Limestone, Lawrence, Elmore, and Blount Counties at 1.5%. Counties with the highest unemployment rates are: Wilcox County at 6.0%, Greene County at 4.0%, and Clarke County at 3.7%.
Major cities with the lowest unemployment rates are: Alabaster, Madison, Trussville, and Vestavia Hills at 1.2%, Homewood, Hoover, and Northport at 1.3%, and Athens at 1.4%. Major cities with the highest unemployment rates are: Selma at 4.5%, Prichard at 3.2%, and Bessemer and Gadsden at 2.5%.
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