Nebraska’s unemployment rate for August remains unchanged from July at 2.0 percent, seasonally adjusted. The rate is down 0.6 percentage points from the August 2022 rate of 2.6 percent. “While the size of the labor force is steady over the year, the number of employed workers is up 6,191 over last August and the number of unemployed workers is down 5,898,” says Commissioner of Labor John H. Albin.
Nonfarm employment, a count of filled jobs, was 1,041,468 in August, down 5,042 over the month and up 13,578 over the year. The private industry with the most growth month to month was private education and health services, up 190 jobs. Private industries with the most over the year growth were leisure and hospitality services, private education and health services and other services.
The national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for August is 3.8 percent, up 0.3 percentage points from the July 2023 rate of 3.5 percent. The rate is up 0.1 percentage points from the August 2022 rate of 3.7 percent.