A summary is below. More details are available on our State Employment Page.

January 22, 2019

Summary

• Alabama added 8,100 jobs and the unemployment rate declined by 0.1 percentage point to 3.9 percent in December according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data.

• Over the past twelve months, Alabama added 43,600 jobs and the unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percentage point from 3.8 percent.

• In December, Alabama's private sector added 6,600 jobs and over the past twelve months, it created 38,900 jobs.

• The number of unemployed Alabamans fell by 1,731 in December, and over the past year, 49,018 Alabamans found jobs.

• Alabama’s labor force participation rate remains unchanged from 57.5 percent in December.  Since last year, the labor force participation rate fell 1.2 percentage point.

• The national unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percentage point to 3.9 percent in December.  State employment and unemployment data for January is scheduled for release on March 11, 2019.  The national employment situation report for January will be released on Friday, February 1, 2019.