December 9, 2019
Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reports the unemployment rate is now 4.9 percent and employment is up 96,300 since May 2021.
DETR said total private sector jobs are just 2,600 below the pre-pandemic peak, Reno set a record for employment and jobless claims are at multi-decade lows.
More than half the jobs, 3,400, were in the hard-hit sector that supports Nevada’s tourism and gambling industry.
Washoe County’s 4.5% jobless rate for May is a 0.4 percentage improvement from April’s rate of 4.9%, Nevada DETR announced this week.
The rate effective Jan. 1, 2020, is 1.65 percent of wages paid to employees. That is two-tenths of a percent lower than the current rate, giving a significant break to businesses that pay the tax.
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