Tony Evers has announced that record-low unemployment numbers continued in September.
These record-setting numbers included the state as a whole as well as nine counties that posted all-time highs in employment.
The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 2.9 percent, 1.2 below the national average of 4.1.
Door County’s 1.9 percent unemployment rate is the county’s lowest ever on record.
They were joined by Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Langdale, Oconto, Pepin, Rock, and Sawyer Counties, which set record lows in September.
Other rates around our area included Sheboygan and Outagamie Counties at 2.2 percent.
Brown, Shawano, and Winnebago Counties sit at 2.3 percent, while Manitowoc and Fond du Lac County’s unemployment rate was 2.4 percent in the month of September.
This marks the fifth month in a row that Wisconsin has set a record low in unemployment rate.
In addition to continually falling unemployment rates in the state, the labor force participation rate increased to 65.6 compared to the national average of 62.7 percent.
As unemployment rates continue to fall across the nation, Wisconsin remains one of the strongest workforces in the U.S.
