October Marked Sixth Consecutive Month Of Record High Employment In Wisconsin

The new record for total employment, released Thursday by the DWD, breaks the record previously set in September. Preliminary employment estimates for October showed Wisconsin’s seasonally adjust unemployment rate remained at 2.9 percent, 1.2 percentage points below the national unemployment rate. The state’s labor force participation rate increased to 65.7 percent in October, while the national rate fell to 62.6 percent. The number of people employed increased by 8,500 over the month and 23,900 over the year, to a record-high 3,068,000 employed...