Indiana County’s unemployment rate jumped over the month of August.
According to the PA Department of Labor and Industry, Indiana County’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate went up six-tenths of a percentage point to 5.4 percent. In July, the unemployment rate had gone down by about five-tenths to 4.8 percent. In August of 2022, the county like much of the state was still recovering from the unemployment spike due to Covid-19, with the unemployment rate at 7.2 percent, meaning that over the year, the county’s unemployment rate dropped 1.8 points.
Earlier this month, it was announced that the statewide unemployment rate shrank by a tenth of a percent to 4.2 percent while the national rate went up by two-tenths to 3.7 percent.
Total non-farm jobs in the county remained unchanged at 27,600 in August. Jobs in all nine industry super-sectors remained essentially unchanged over the last month, but the biggest change over the last year has been in the government sector, which lost 300 jobs.
