Colorado employers added 3,700 payroll jobs in January, while the state’s unemployment rate was unchanged from December at 4.2 percent. Unemployment in the state is down 1.6 percentage points from the revised January 2014-rate of 5.8 percent. According to those revised estimates, Colorado unemployment peaked at 8.9 percent in September and October 2010. In January, […]
State Unemployment Drops Below Five Percent
November 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Colorado’s unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent in September, the lowest rate since June 2008, and the state added 14,600 payroll jobs from the previous month. It’s the first time in more than four years that Colorado unemployment has been under 5 percent. Meanwhile, the payroll job gain last month was nearly double the state’s […]
Holiday Encouragement Part 1: Unemployment Dropping
December 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
According to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, the state’s unemployment rate eased to 6.8%, its lowest level in nearly five years. The last time Colorado’s official jobless rate was that low was in January 2009, when the rate stood at 6.7% on its way up to highs over 9% in 2010. The rate […]