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

January 22, 2019

Summary

• Mississippi added 400 jobs and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.7 percent in December according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data.

• Over the past twelve months, Mississippi added 11,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage point from 4.8 percent.

• In December, Mississippi's private sector added 1,000 jobs and over the past twelve months, it created 9,600 jobs.

• The number of unemployed Mississippians rose by 69 in December, and over the past year, 4,328 Mississippians found jobs.

• Mississippi’s labor force participation rate decreased to 55.8 percent from 55.9 percent in December.  Since last year, the labor force participation rate rose 0.1 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.