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Recent Labor Market Developments


Unemployment Rates for Utica-Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area

(not seasonally adjusted)

April 2025: 3.3.%
March 2025: 4.2%
April  2024: 3.7%

The unemployment rate in the Utica-Rome metro decreased from 3.7% in April 2024 to 3.3% in April 2025. The unemployment rate was 4.2% in March.


Change in Nonfarm Jobs since April 2024
For the 12-month period ending April 2025, the nonfarm job count in the Utica-Rome metro decreased -1,000, or -0.8%, to 121,800. Private sector employment declined -600, or -0.6%, to 92,000.

Job gains were posted in mining, logging, and construction (+200), leisure and hospitality (+100), other services (+100), and trade, transportation and utilities (+100).

Job losses occurred in manufacturing (-500), government (-400), private education and health services (-400), and professional and business services (-200).

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New York State Department of Labor Significant Industries 2024

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