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Over the year, wage and salary employment increased 23,300, with gains in the education and health services sector (+7,700), the leisure and hospitality sector (+4,700), and the construction sector (+4,000), among others.
Wage and salary employment increased in August by 900. Monthly gains were seen in the government sector (+1,600), the education and health services sector (+1,000), and the leisure and hospitality sector (+700), among others.
JobLink, the state’s online free jobs database (www.joblink.alabama.gov), registered 23,299 active job orders in August.
“All of the metro areas saw their unemployment rates drop or remain constant over the month, and 64 of 67 counties saw their rate either drop or remain constant in August,” Alabama Department of Labor Fitzgerald Washington said. “Only one Alabama county experienced an increase in its unemployment rate over the year, which is telling us that all across the state, things are improving.”
Counties with the lowest unemployment rates are: Shelby County at 4.7%, Lee, Elmore, and St. Clair Counties at 5.5%, and Cullman and Baldwin Counties at 5.6%.
Unemployment Rate by County, August 2015
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