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

March 12, 2018

Summary

• Alabama added 4,900 jobs and the unemployment rate declined by 0.1 percentage point to 3.7 percent in January according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data.

• Over the past twelve months, Alabama added 14,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell by 1.8 percentage points from 5.5 percent.

• In January, Alabama's private sector added 5,600 jobs and over the past twelve months, it created 14,400 jobs.

• The number of unemployed Alabamans fell by 1,537 in January, and over the past year, 21,985 Alabamans found jobs.

• Alabama’s labor force participation rate decreased to 56.3 percent from 56.4 percent in January.  Since last year, the labor force participation rate fell 0.1 percentage point.

• The national unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent in February.  State employment and unemployment data for February is scheduled for release on March 22, 2018.  The national employment situation report for March will be released on Friday, April 6, 2018.