New Jersey lost an estimated 9,700 jobs in June, mostly in the private sector, and the state’s unemployment rate has increased from 4.8% to 4.9%, according to federal data released Thursday by state labor officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Preliminary estimates previously released for May were also downwardly revised on Thursday, resulting in a monthly loss of 2,200 jobs for May. This change did not affect the 4.8% state unemployment rate previously reported for May.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New Jersey employment now stands at 4,382,600 jobs. Most of the 9,700 jobs lost in June were in the private sector (70%).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Only two of nine private industries reported employment gains in June: private education and health services (+1,200) and financial activities (+1,000).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Private sector job losses include trade, transportation, and utilities (-4,200), other services (-2,200), leisure and hospitality (-1,300), construction (-900), and information (-400). Professional and business services as well as manufacturing recorded no change for the month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The private sector lost a total of 6,800 jobs in June. The public sector also lost 2,900 jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Compared to a year ago when New Jersey unemployment stood at 4.6%, the state has seen a net gain of 7,000 jobs.\u00a0 Three of the nine private sector industries have recorded gains during the past 12 months: private education and health services (+33,000), financial activities (+1,100) and manufacturing (+100).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Six private sector industries have reported net losses during the past 12 months. Year-over-year losses have been recorded in trade, transportation and utilities (-9,200); construction (-6,300); information (-5,200); leisure and hospitality (-2,900); professional and business services (-2,200); and other services (-2,100).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Public sector employment has increased by 400 jobs since June 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Jersey lost an estimated 9,700 jobs in June, mostly in the private sector, and the state’s unemployment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134,15927],"class_list":{"0":"post-17041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-nj-june-2025-unemployment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}