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

January 22, 2019

Summary

• Maryland added 4,900 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, Maryland added 50,900 jobs and the unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage point from 4.1 percent.

• In December, Maryland's private sector added 4,200 jobs and over the past twelve months, it created 51,000 jobs.

• The number of unemployed Marylanders fell by 2,692 in December, and over the past year, 10,645 Marylanders found jobs.

• Maryland’s labor force participation rate remains unchanged from 67.2 percent in December.  Since last year, the labor force participation rate fell 0.2 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.