Recent Labor Market Developments
Unemployment Rates for Utica-Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area
(not seasonally adjusted)
November 2024: 3.5%
October 2024: 3.4%
November 2023: 3.8%
The unemployment rate in the Utica-Rome metro declined from 3.8% in November 2023 to 3.5% in November 2024. The unemployment rate was 3.4% in October.
Change in Nonfarm Jobs since November 2023
For the 12-month period ending November 2024, the nonfarm job count in the Utica-Rome metro increased 1,800, or 1.5%, to 125,700. Private sector employment grew 1,500, or 1.6%, to 95,300.
Job gains were posted in private education and health services (+1,300), government (+300), mining, logging, and construction (+200), leisure and hospitality (+100), other services (+100), and professional and business services (+100).
Job losses occurred in manufacturing (-200) and information (-100).