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

January 22, 2019

Summary

• Delaware added 1,200 jobs and the unemployment rate declined by 0.1 percentage point to 3.7 percent in December according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data.

• Over the past twelve months, Delaware added 10,200 jobs and the unemployment rate fell by 0.8 percentage point from 4.5 percent.

• In December, Deleware's private sector added 1,100 jobs and over the past twelve months, it created 9,400 jobs.

• The number of unemployed Delawareans fell by 503 in December, and over the past year, 12,778 Delawareans found jobs.

• Delaware’s labor force participation rate increased to 62.5 percent from 62.4 percent in December.  Since last year, the labor force participation rate rose 0.5 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.