Ohio unemployment down to 4.7 percent
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.7 percent in August 2015, down from 5 percent in July.
Ohio’s nonfarm wage and salary employment increased 14,600 over the month, from a revised 5,396,500 in July to 5,411,100 in August 2015.
The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in August was 265,000, down 21,000 from 286,000 in July.
The number of unemployed has decreased by 45,000 in the past 12 months from 310,000. The August unemployment rate for Ohio was down from 5.4 percent in August 2014.
The U.S. unemployment rate for August was 5.1 percent, down from 5.3 percent in July and down from 6.1 percent in August 2014.
There were job gains in the construction, the private service-providing sector, the goods-producing industries, professional and business services, trade, transportation and utilities, leisure and hospitality, financial activities, other services and health and educational services.