Carson City unemployment edges down in July to 6.5 percent
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Tue, 08/23/2016 - 11:20am
Unemployment in Carson City fell to 6.5 percent in July after seeing a slight increase in June, according to figures released Tuesday by the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.
Carson City added around 100 jobs last month that was figured in as a payroll seasonal adjustment. The capital city was expected to lose around 100 jobs but gained 100 instead, according to the department's labor market overview report. In June, Carson City's unemployment rate was 6.9 percent.
Jobless rates in the Silver State's metro areas also saw decreases, with the Reno/Sparks area falling to 5.5 percent and Las Vegas down to 6.7 percent.
All county unemployment rates decreased except Esmeralda and are below 10 percent, said Bill Anderson, chief economist for Nevada’s Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.
“Year-over-year employment increased or remained steady across the state’s population centers,” Anderson said. “Statewide, Nevada experienced a seasonally adjusted growth rate of 2.5 percent, or 31,900 added jobs, relative to last July. This continues to be an indication that the Silver State is headed to prerecession levels in terms of the number of jobs.”
At the county level, Carson City had higher pre-recessionary levels of healthcare employment than any of the other metro areas, at 9.5 percent. This trend contin- ued in 2015.
The current percentage of healthcare industry jobs in the capital city is relatively close to the national share, up 2.1 percentage points from 2007, to 11.6 percent. Since the economic downturn, the share of healthcare industry employment in Washoe increased similarly to Carson City, up from 7.9 percent in 2007, to 10 percent in 2015, or 2.1 percentage points, according to the report.
