State unemployment rate jumps, few new jobs created

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(04-18) 12:19 PDT SAN FRANCISCO --
California employers kept paysheets level and the state's unemployment charge per unit jumped half a per centum point in March as a deceleration economic system curtailed employment in a wide scope of industries.

Total occupations outside the farm sector increased by 1,000 in March while the unemployment charge per unit rose to 6.2 percent, after adjusting the information for seasonal variation, the Golden State Employment Development Department reported today.The unemployment charge per unit climbed because the figure of people in the labour military unit grew by 61,000 and not adequate new occupations were created to absorb them.

Across the nation, occupations dipped by 80,000 in March and the unemployment charge per unit rose .03 per centum point to 5.1 percent, the Labor Department reported earlier this month. The Labor Department's state data, released today, showed that lone Wolverine State and Last Frontier had higher unemployment rates than Golden State in March, a mark of the badness of the state's lodging bust.

California's occupation sum would have got fallen in March if Film Industry film writers hadn't settled their strike, analysts said.

"Things are very much trending in the way of falling employment and rising unemployment," said Jon Haveman, a principal with the research and consulting house Beacon Economics in San Rafael. "The rise in nonfarm occupations is entirely owed to the film writers coming back to work."

The Bay Area held up better than the state as a whole during the month. The San Francisco metropolitan area, which includes Marin and San Mateo counties, registered a 4.4 percentage idle rate, up from 4.1 percentage in February, and the part added 4,700 occupations during the month, boosted by strength in the nutrient service and hotel industries. State mathematical statisticians don't do seasonal accommodations to local data.

Over the last 12 months, Golden State occupations have got stagnated. California's nonagricultural employers had a sum of 15,166,200 people on their paysheets last month, down 12,000 from March 2007. For the year, occupation losings occurred in construction, manufacturing, information and fiscal services.

The employment squeezing was concentrated in Southern California, where nonfarm occupations drop by 62,600 over the year. By contrast, the Bay Area gained 19,800 jobs, according to Sir Leslie Stephen Levy, manager of the Center for Continuing Survey of the Golden State Economy in Palo Alto.

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