Workforce Investment Area 1
May 2008
• Total nonfarm
payroll employment up 600
• Goods-producing sector up 100
• Service-providing sector up 500
• Unemployment rate down two-tenths of a percentage
point to 5.5 percent
Over the Year
• Total nonfarm payroll employment up 1,000
• Goods-producing sector up 400
• Service-providing sector up 700
• Unemployment rate up seven-tenths of a percentage
point