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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah unemployment rate dropped a percentage point to 2.0% in March.
Department of Workforce Services deputy director Nate McDonald told KSL NewsRadio that the low unemployment rate mirrors job growth in Utah. Only one job sector isn't experiencing the strong bounce back from COVID-19 restrictions.
"It's the professional and business services sector … that industry has some of the help supply services and telemarketing, collection agencies," McDonald said.
"They rely on that excess labor in a lot of ways … and right now there's just not that excess labor."
The latest report shows that there are still more than 33,000 Utahns who are unemployed. The March national unemployment rate is 3.6%.
