California's unemployment rate has fallen below 7% for the fist time since March of last year at the start of the pandemic.
FILE - A hiring sign is shown at a booth for Jameson's Irish Pub during a job fair on Sept. 22, 2021, in the West Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Hiring in California slowed significantly in November 2021 even as the state's unemployment rate dipped below 7% for the first time since March 2020, at the start of the pandemic, according to data made public Friday, Dec. 17, 2021.
The data showed that California employers filled 45,700 new jobs last month. That's less than half of the jobs the state gained in October, but it was still enough to account for nearly 22% of all U.S. job growth in November. Nineteen months later, California has regained nearly 70% of those jobs. That's compared to 82% of jobs recovered nationwide since the start of the pandemic, according to Sung Won Sohn, a professor of finance and economics at Loyola Marymount University.
Counties surrounding San Francisco Bay, which have some of the state's wealthiest residents, registered the lowest unemployment rates. Marin County had 2.9% unemployment, followed by Santa Clara County at 3.2% and San Francisco County at 3.3%. But other sparsely populated Central Valley counties with traditionally high unemployment rates posted numbers below the statewide average — including Shasta, Butte and Madera counties.
The new unemployment data is based on surveys taken the week of Nov. 12. That survey showed California's workforce — defined as the number of people who are either working or looking for work — increased by 17,900 people in November.
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