{"id":25766,"date":"2025-07-21T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/25766\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:29:08","slug":"jobs-in-new-jersey-declined-unemployment-rose-to-4-9-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/25766\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs in New Jersey declined, unemployment rose to 4.9% in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/images.roi-nj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Workers.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"453\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Workers-696x453.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Workers\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The jobs market in New Jersey turned south in June. Preliminary labor market estimates for June, published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>, indicate that total nonfarm employment decreased by 9,700 jobs to a seasonally adjusted level of 4,382,600 jobs, while the state\u2019s unemployment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage point to 4.9%. Updated estimates of total nonfarm employment in May in New Jersey saw a downward revision.<\/p>\n<p>Sectors that recorded job losses in June 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. The public sector posted a loss of 2,900 jobs for June. Just two out of nine private industries recorded employment gains compared with May \u2013 private education and health services (+1,200) and financial activities (+1,000).<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 12 months, New Jersey has added 7,000 nonfarm jobs. The private sector recorded a gain of 6,600 over that time. Three out of nine private sector industries posted an increase, including private education and health services (+33,300), financial activities (+1,100), and manufacturing (+100). <\/p>\n<p>Year-over-year losses were 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). The public sector has notched a gain of 400 jobs over the past 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Updated estimates of total nonfarm employment in May saw a downward revision of 1,600 jobs, resulting in a revised April-to-May monthly loss of 2,200. The state\u2019s unemployment rate for May was unchanged at 4.8%, tied for eighth among states with the highest jobless rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In June, the United States added 147,000 jobs and unemployment dipped to 4.1% from 4.2%, despite fear of the impact of President Trump\u2019s tariff strategy, federal layoffs, and the immigration crackdown. The rate has been in a narrow 4.0% to 4.2% range since May 2024 and has been consistently at least 0.5% below New Jersey\u2019s unemployment rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary BLS job estimates data for July for New Jersey will be released on Aug. 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jobs market in New Jersey turned south in June. Preliminary labor market estimates for June, published by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-25766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766","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=25766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}