Unemployment Rate Remain Unchanged

The State of Ohio has released January’s unemployment data for January. 

The Department of Job and Family Services said Ohio’s unemployment rate of 5.1 percent is unchanged from a revised 5.1 percent in December 2014. 

The agency reports that Ohio’s nonfarm wage and salary employment increased 25,100 over the month, from a revised 5,369,900 in December to 5,395,000 in January. 

The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in January was 293,000 up a thousand from December.  The number of unemployed has decreased by 78,000 in the past 12 months from 371,000.

The January unemployment rate for Ohio was down from 6.5 percent in January 2014.

The U.S. unemployment rate for January was 5.7 percent, up from 5.6 percent in December, and down from 6.6 percent in January 2014.