The Nebraska Department of Labor (NDOL) announced Tuesday that the state’s preliminary unemployment rate for December 2022 is 2.6 percent, seasonally adjusted. The rate is up 0.1 percentage points from November and up 0.3 percentage points from the December 2021 rate.
Nebraska saw a three-percent increase of nearly 31,000 nonfarm jobs over the year, the largest December to December growth since 1984. December’s nonfarm employment went down 1,301 over the month and up 30,880 over the year. Private industries with the highest monthly growth were financial activities, manufacturing, and trade, transportation, and utilities. Private industries with the most year-to-year growth were mining and construction, leisure and hospitality, and trade, transportation, and utilities.
Nebraska has the nation’s sixth-lowest unemployment rating.