Connecticut employers expanded payrolls for the fifth consecutive month in June, pushing the state jobless rate to a post-recession low 6.7 percent, state labor authorities say.
Jobs grew by 1,500 last month, the state Labor Department said Thursday.
“Connecticut’s unemployment rate continues to decline for all the right reasons, such as broad industry job growth coupled with declining unemployment, and an expanding labor force,” said Andy Condon, Director of the Office of Research. “Summer seasonal hiring seems to have begun at expected rates.”
So far this year, the state’s nonfarm employment has added a revised 5,300 jobs, to 1,667,400 – the highest since the Great Recession, the labor agency said. May’s job gain was revised upward to 6,000 from the previous 5,800 estimate.
Connecticut unemployment was 6.9 percent in May.
