{"id":214707,"date":"2025-06-26T02:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214707\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T02:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:18:20","slug":"portland-metro-area-sees-7500-job-losses-in-may-14000-jobs-lost-in-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214707\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland metro area sees 7,500 job losses in May; 14,000 jobs lost in past year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland metro area lost 7,500 jobs in May, raising the unemployment rate to 4.5%.<\/p>\n

PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 The Portland metro area employment picture is looking a little shaky, even ahead of a new round of expected Intel layoffs<\/a> and without factoring in recent job cuts<\/a> at two grid battery companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The area lost about 7,500 jobs in May and employment is down about 14,000 in the past year, according to a new report<\/a> from the Oregon Employment Department.<\/p>\n

With the job losses, the number of unemployed people in the metro area is up about 11,000 since May 2024, pushing the unemployment rate from 3.9% to 4.5%.<\/p>\n

The Portland metropolitan statistical area is defined as Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington and Yamhill counties in Oregon, and Clark and Skamania counties in Washington state.<\/p>\n

Statewide, the unemployment rate was 4.8% in May, up from 4.7% in April and 4.1% in May 2024. The U.S. rate was 4.2% in both months. Oregon’s unemployment rate is up 1.2 percentage points since hitting a recent low of 3.6% from March through June 2023.<\/p>\n

Amid the rising unemployment rate, Central Oregon has been the leader in job growth among six regions of the state delineated by the Employment Department, with a 1.4% gain. The Willamatte Valley was close behind with 1.1% growth. Southern Oregon and Eastern Oregon each saw 0.2% gains. The Coast, though, was down 0.4% and the Portland metro area’s five Oregon counties were together off 0.6%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland metro area lost 7,500 jobs in May, raising the unemployment rate to 4.5%. PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,897,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-214707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114747271697756427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}