Alabama's unemployment rate for November remains unchanged from the month before. The number of jobless in the State was three point one percent, which is significantly below the nearly five percent rate in November of last year. The total number of people without work just under sixty nine thousand compared to nearly one hundred and six thousand last year.
“Alabama is continuing to hold steady in regard to unemployment,” said the states’ Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington. “We’re fortunate to not see large shifts in these numbers, even as other economic factors continue to experience pandemic related volatility. In November, more people joined the labor force, more people started working, and yet again, we recorded a new record high jobs count for 2021.”
November’s rate represents 68,673 unemployed persons, compared to 67,860 in October and 105,558 in November 2020. Over the year, wage and salary employment increased by 48,300, with gains in the leisure and hospitality sector, the trade, transportation, and utilities sector, and the education and health services sector, among others. Wage and salary employment increased in November by 1,500. Monthly gains were seen in the trade, transportation, and utilities sector, the government sector, and the information sector, among others according to a state press release.
Shelby County had the state's lowest unemployment rate at two percent. Wilcox County in rural western Alabama had the state's highest jobless rate at nearly ten percent.
