Workforce Investment Area 1
May 2010
Over the Month
• Total nonfarm
payroll employment up 1,700
• Goods-producing sector up 100
• Service-providing sector up 1,600
• Total unemployment down 300
• Unemployment rate down three-tenths of a
percentage point to 8.9 percent
Over the Year
• Total nonfarm payroll employment down 200
• Goods-producing sector down 700
• Service-providing sector up 500
• Total unemployment up 200
• Unemployment rate up four-tenths of a percentage
point from 8.5 percent