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

January 22, 2019

Summary

• North Dakota added 1,700 jobs and the unemployment rate declined by 0.1 percentage point to 2.7 percent in December according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data.

• Over the past twelve months, North Dakota added 9,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percentage point from 2.6 percent.

• In December, North Dakota's private sector added 1,300 jobs and over the past twelve months, it created 9,600 jobs.

• The number of unemployed North Dakotans fell by 246 in December, and over the past year, 11,352 North Dakotans lost jobs.

• North Dakota’s labor force participation rate remains unchanged from 69.5 percent in December.  Since last year, the labor force participation rate fell 1.9 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.