Albany unemployment rate rises in September
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From staff reports
ALBANY — Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said Thursday that Albany saw its unemployment rate tick up in September. Additionally, Albany saw monthly decreases in employment and jobs in September.
“Although we saw some negative metrics in certain MSAs, a majority of the areas saw increases in jobs, employed residents and labor force,” Butler said in a news release. “We really need to push the tens of thousands of jobs that we have on our online job listing page EmployGeorgia.com. The more we fill these jobs, the more our state can regulate and show positive numbers throughout all MSAs.”
In Albany, the unemployment rate increased 0.5 percentage points in September, reaching 7.4%. A year ago, the rate was 3.9%.
The labor force decreased in September by 42 and ended the month with 63,431. That number is down 3,628 when compared to September of 2019.
Albany finished the month with 58,749 employed residents. That number decreased by 314 over the month and is down by 5,672 when compared to the same time a year ago. Albany ended September with 59,900 jobs. That number decreased by 300 from August to September but was down by 3,500 when compared to this time last year.
The number of unemployment claims went down by 16% in September. When compared to last September, claims were up by about 772%.
Employ Georgia, the GDOL’s online job listing service at employgeorgia.com showed about 896 active job postings in metro Albany for September.
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