The work force in Georgia is staying ahead of the curve for employment rates in the nation.<\/p>\n
The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) announced on Thursday that\u00a0Georgia\u2019s July 2025 unemployment rate was 3.4%, down one-tenth of a percent\u00a0from June. The unemployment rate was eight-tenths lower than the national unemployment rate of 4.2% for the same timeline.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Georgia’s jobs decreased below the 5-millon mark in the month, following its record-setting milestone in June, to 4,995,500.\u00a0 During the 2025 calendar year to date, jobs for the state rose by 26,900.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The GDOL indicates in their press release that the health care and social assistance sector reached an all-time high employment number in July at 625,500 jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sectors with the most job gains in the past month were health care and social assistance, 2,800; durable goods manufacturing, 2,700; construction, 2,100; professional, scientific and technical services, 1,500; and state government, 700.<\/p>\n
GDOL officials noted that industries where jobs which declined over the month were with\u00a0accommodation and food services, 4,500; transportation, warehousing and utilities, 1,400; finance and insurance, 900; wholesale trade, 900; federal government, 700; information, 700; and other services, 700.<\/p>\n
Georgia’s Labor Commissioner Barbara Rivera Holmes said, \u201cMore Georgians are stepping into the workforce and securing jobs \u2014 a trend that\u2019s held strong for two consecutive months.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the number of unemployed has steadily declined for 11 straight months, resulting in an improved unemployment rate of 3.4% in July\u00a02025, the lowest rate since April 2024. These gains reflect the power of putting workers first and building strong partnerships across Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The work force in Georgia is staying ahead of the curve for employment rates in the nation. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134],"class_list":["post-82400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82400","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=82400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}