{"id":98625,"date":"2025-08-21T05:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98625\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T05:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:44:09","slug":"washington-iron-counties-outpace-utah-in-july-job-growth-each-rising-over-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98625\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington, Iron counties outpace Utah in July job growth, each rising over 6%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. GEORGE \u2014 Iron and Washington counties both posted job growth above the state average in July, according to the monthly jobs report issued by the Utah Department of Workforce Services.<\/p>\n<p>Utah&#8217;s nonfarm payroll employment increased an estimated 2.3% in the 12 months ending July 2025, adding 40,300 jobs statewide. The state&#8217;s job count now stands at 1,763,600. Utah&#8217;s unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.3%, with about 60,500 Utahns unemployed. The June unemployment rate was unrevised at 3.2%. The national unemployment rate for July was 4.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Crabb, chief economist with the Department of Workforce Services, said the labor market remains strong even with a modest increase in unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Robust job growth continues to fuel economic momentum, even as we see early signs of moderation in hiring trends,&#8221; Crabb said in an employment report. &#8220;While the unemployment rate has edged up slightly, it remains near historic lows, underscoring the resilience of our labor market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stgeorgeutah.com\/news\/washington-iron-counties-outpace-utah-in-july-job-growth-each-rising-over-6\/article_e0e6e5b1-8b72-4e58-99e7-d235e12cd05f.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story at St. George News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. GEORGE \u2014 Iron and Washington counties both posted job growth above the state average in July, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,1302,3811,101,939,3812,134,3729,3,3813,3814,99,1505,2987,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-98625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98625","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=98625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}