Job Expansion in Minnesota: Eight Years Strong

Saturday, January 20, 2018

In September, the Minnesota unemployment rate fell 0.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted 3.7 percent. The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.2 percent. 

The state gained 6,400 jobs in September. Over the past year, Minnesota gained 41,259 jobs, an increase of 1.4 percent. U.S. job growth, same time period, was 1.2 percent. Read more.

  • Professional and business sectors gained 3,600 jobs, leading all other sectors. All gains were in administrative and support, and waste management and remediation services (up 5,000). Management of companies and enterprises lost 200 jobs.
  • Education and health services were up 2,000 new jobs and government was up 1,700. Small job gains were realized in other services; financial activities; trade, transportation and utilities; and logging and mining.
  • Information and leisure and hospitality both lost 1,700 jobs. Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (down 2,400) was behind the sector’s slowdown. Accommodation and Food Services saw a small 700-job increase.
  • Annual (over the year) job growth in Minnesota continued to surpass the US in four of 11 major industry sectors: logging and mining; construction; trade, transportation and utilities; and educational and health services. 

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