{"id":618408,"date":"2026-05-02T02:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618408\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:14:15","slug":"massachusetts-hiring-rebounded-in-march-new-data-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618408\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts hiring rebounded in March, new data show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Massachusetts employers returned to hiring mode<\/a> in March, posting the biggest monthly job gain in nearly two years.<\/p>\n

Payrolls rose by 6,800 after falling by 7,100 jobs in February<\/a>, according to federal data released Friday by the Healey administration. It was the largest one-month hiring spurt since May 2024.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s unemployment rate<\/a> ticked down to 4.7 percent in March from 4.8 percent in the prior month. The national jobless rate was 4.3 percent in March. <\/p>\n

Monthly employment data are prone to swings, especially at the state level, so looking at longer time periods can offer a more useful picture of the job market. Over the past six months, Massachusetts added 12,700 jobs. That compares with a loss of more than 20,000 positions in the prior six months.<\/p>\n

Layoffs remain relatively tame<\/a> by historical standards, but job creation is weak.<\/p>\n

Monthly payroll numbers are derived from a survey of employers by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. A separate BLS survey of households showed that the ranks of the employed fell by nearly 42,000 since September. <\/p>\n

The decline was driven by residents dropping out of the labor force, which is shrinking largely due to retirements. However, the Trump administration\u2019s strict immigration limits<\/a> and deportations are also a likely factor in the smaller pool of available workers.<\/p>\n

Larry Edelman can be reached at larry.edelman@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Massachusetts employers returned to hiring mode in March, posting the biggest monthly job gain in nearly two years.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,268189],"class_list":["post-618408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-south-station-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618408","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=618408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}