Workforce Investment Area 5

May 2010:

Over the Month:

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment up 700
•    Goods-producing sector up 100
•    Service-providing sector up 500
•    Total unemployment down 300
•    Unemployment rate down four-tenths of a percentage point to 10.9 percent

Over the Year

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment down 200
•    Goods-producing sector up 100
•    Service-providing sector down 300
•    Total unemployment up 600
•    Unemployment rate up one and two-tenths percentage points from 9.7 percent