Georgia’s Unemployment Rate dips Below 3% 

Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler announces that Georgia’s June unemployment rate hit an all-time low of 2.9% while Georgia’s number of jobs continued to climb to an all-time high of 4,801,800.  Jobs are up 18,100 from May to June and up 246,300 over the year.  Georgia’s unemployment rate was seven-tenths of a percent lower than the national June 2022 unemployment rate of 3.6%.  The state saw a new all-time high number of employed Georgians of 5,134,566, up 10,420 in June.  The labor force was at an all-time high of 5,289,765, up 8,103 over the month, and the number of unemployed was down 2,317 to 155,199, the lowest figure since March 2001’s 152,974.  There are over 227,000 jobs listed online at EmployGeorgia.com, resulting in a minimum of over 300,000 unfilled positions.