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

January 22, 2019

Summary

• Oregon added 300 jobs and the unemployment rate increased by 0.2 percentage point to 4.1 percent in December according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data.

• Over the past twelve months, Oregon added 35,100 jobs and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent.

• In December, Oregon's private sector lost 600 jobs and over the past twelve months, it created 47,000 jobs.

• The number of unemployed Oregonians rose by 2,891 in December, and over the past year, 2,225 Oregonians lost jobs.

• Oregon’s labor force participation rate remains unchanged from 62.1 percent in December.  Since last year, the labor force participation rate fell 1.1 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.