Ohio’s unemployment rate was 7.0 percent in January, up from 6.7 percent in December, according to data released by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS). Officials have warned that the unemployment rate would bounce back and forth for a while as people return to the available workforce. The increase represents the largest one-month rise in Ohio unemployment since May of 2009.
Ohio’s nonfarm wage and salary employment increased 3,800 over the month from the revised 5,175,000 in December to 5,178,800 in January. The number of workers unemployed in Ohio increased 14,000 to 399,000 in January, up from 385,000 in December.
The number of unemployed has decreased by 42,000 in the past 12 months from 441,000. The December unemployment rate for Ohio was down from 7.6 percent in January 2012.
The U.S. unemployment rate for January was 7.9 percent, up from 7.8 percent in December, and down from 8.3 percent in January 2012.
The local rate for Marion County will be released next week.
Total Nonagricultural Wage and Salary Employment (Seasonally Adjusted)
Ohio’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased 3,800 over the month, from a revised 5,175,000 in December 2012 to 5,178,800 in January 2013, according to the latest business establishment survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor (Bureau of Labor Statistics) in cooperation with ODJFS.
Goods-producing industries, at 851,400 added 3,900 jobs from December. Construction (+2,100), manufacturing (+1,600), and mining and logging (+200) grew over the month. Private service-providing industries, at 3,578,800, gained 800 jobs in the same time period. Job gains occurred in educational and health services (+8,000), information (+1,600), and other services (+600). Job losses were seen in trade, transportation, and utilities (-4,300), financial activities (-3,200), professional and business services (-1,200), and leisure and hospitality (-700). Government employment, at 748,600, declined 900. Decreases in state government (-1,800) and federal government (-400) outweighed growth in local government (+1,300).
From January 2012 to January 2013, nonagricultural wage and salary employment rose 29,100.
Goods-producing industries increased 4,300 over the year. Manufacturing added 9,300 jobs through gains in durable goods (+5,200) and nondurable goods (+4,100). Mining and logging added 200 jobs while construction declined 5,200. Private service-providing industries added 35,900 jobs. Gains were posted in educational and health services (+17,000), leisure and hospitality (+8,900), trade, transportation, and utilities (+5,200), professional and business services (+2,900), other services (+1,800), and financial activities (+1,000). Over-the-year declines were seen in information (-900). Government employment decreased 11,100 through losses in local government (-5,800), state government (-3,600), and federal government (-1,700).
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