The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services released the state’s unemployment rate for June 2021.
According to ODJFS, Ohio’s unemployment rate increased to 5.2% in June after it hit 5.0% in May. It rested at 4.7% in both March and April, 2021.
ODJFS says the state’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased 31,300 over the month, from a revised 5,289,500 in May to 5,320,800 in June 2021.
The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in June was 291,000, up from 278,000 in May.
The June unemployment rate for Ohio decreased from 10.3% in June 2020, ODJFS said.
ODJFS is set to release July 2021 unemployment rates and nonagricultural wage and salary data for Ohio on Friday, August 20.