{"id":247878,"date":"2026-07-20T19:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247878\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:01:08","slug":"pennsylvania-unemployment-rate-down-to-4-1-percent-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247878\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Unemployment Rate Down to 4.1 Percent in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pennwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/catching-jobs-word-showing-work-and-careers_fyFdaMwu-1-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"633\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/catching-jobs-word-showing-work-and-careers_fyFdaMwu-1-696x633.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Catching Jobs Word Showing Work And Careers\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Labor &amp; Industry released its preliminary employment situation report for June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s unemployment rate was down one-tenth of a percentage point over the month to 4.1 percent in June. The PA rate remained one-tenth of a percentage point below the U.S. unemployment rate of 4.2 percent, which was also down a tenth of a point over the month.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Commonwealth\u2019s unemployment rate declined by two-tenths of a point from its June 2025 level of 4.3 percent. The United States\u2019 rate was up one-tenth over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s civilian labor force \u2014 the estimated number of residents working or looking for work \u2014 was up 17,000\u00a0over the month to a record high 6,643,000 in June. Employment rose to a record high while unemployment fell 6,000 over the month.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s total nonfarm jobs\u00a0were up 1,000 over the month to a record high of 6,209,600 in June. Jobs\u00a0increased in seven of the 11 industry supersectors. The largest volume gain was in leisure &amp; hospitality while the largest decline was in professional &amp; business services. Education &amp; health services rose to a record high level. Over the year, jobs\u00a0were up 34,500 with gains in six of the 11 supersectors. The largest volume gain from last June was in education &amp; health services (+28,400).<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pennwatchmedia.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"PW_2024_LeaderAd\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PW_2024_LeaderAd.png\" alt=\"\"   width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Department of Labor &amp; Industry released its preliminary employment situation report for June 2026. Pennsylvania\u2019s unemployment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-247878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}