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North Central Florida Job Market Update | April 2023

The national unemployment rate was 3.4% in April 2023, down 0.1% from March 2023, and last year’s rate of 3.6% in April 2022. Among the unemployed, the number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job increased by 346,000 over the month to 5.3 million. Both the labor force participation rate,

North Central Florida Job Market Update | March 2023

The national unemployment rate was 3.5% in March 2023, down 0.1% from February 2023 and last year’s rate of 3.6% in March 2022. Among the unemployed, the number of permanent unemployed increased by 172,000 to 1.6 million in March, and the number of reentrants who previously worked but were not in the labor force before

North Central Florida Job Market Update | February 2023

The national unemployment rate was 3.6% in February 2023, up 0.2 percentage points from the January 2023 rate and down 0.2 percentage points from 3.8% a year ago. On the other hand, total nonagricultural employment was 155,350,000 in February 2023, with an increase of 311,000 jobs (+0.2%) over the month and 4,340,000 jobs (+2.9%) over