SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Utah\u2019s economy continued its steady climb in May with a year-over-year job growth rate of 2.5%, adding an estimated 42,900 nonfarm payroll jobs since May 2024. But the state\u2019s unemployment rate inched up to 3.2%\u2014up from 3.1% the month before, according to the Department of Workforce Services.<\/p>\n
Chief Economist Ben Crabb said Utah\u2019s private sector is driving most of the employment gains.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the unemployment rate saw a slight increase, the state\u2019s economy remains robust,\u201d Crabb said in Friday\u2019s report.<\/p>\n
Private sector job growth was up 2.3% year-over-year, accounting for 33,400 new jobs. The biggest gains came from education and health services (up 18,000 jobs), construction (up 7,800), and manufacturing (up 3,200). The trade, transportation and utilities sector lost 3,100 jobs, and other services dropped by 1,200.<\/p>\n
The statewide job total now stands at approximately 1,786,000.<\/p>\n
County-level data released by the Department of Workforce Services showed relatively modest job growth in Northern Utah. Cache County reported a 0.6% increase in employment over the past year, adding just over 400 jobs. Box Elder County saw a slight dip of 0.2%, while Weber County posted a 2.3% gain.<\/p>\n
The national unemployment rate held steady in May at 4.2%, meaning Utah continues to outperform the country in both employment growth and joblessness.<\/p>\n
Full county-by-county job numbers are expected to be posted by June 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Utah\u2019s economy continued its steady climb in May with a year-over-year job growth rate…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[769,64,767,768,420,770,766,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-box-elder-county","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cache-county","11":"tag-department-of-workforce-services","12":"tag-jobs","13":"tag-northern-utah","14":"tag-unemployment","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}