Since February employment numbers were just recently released here in Washington State, let’s check in again on the jobs situation around Seattle, courtesy of data from the Washington State Employment Security Department. The style of most of these charts are stolen from the excellent San Diego housing reporter Rich Toscano.
First up, here’s a two-year [...]
October unemployment info was released by the Washington State Employment Security Department this week, so here’s a shot of the Seattle area (King/Snohomish) unemployment rate (NSA) compared to the national U3 rate:
According to their data, the Seattle area has shed 66,600 jobs in the last year, while adding 42,320 people to the labor force.
A reader wrote in requesting an update to this February post, in which I criticized Nancy Pelosi’s misleading chart of job losses.
Here’s an update to the post-WWII job loss chart, courtesy of Calculated Risk, in which I’ve added a mark so you can see where the “stimulus” was passed.
Wow, good thing we changed direction to [...]
Here’s a quarterly check on the jobs situation around Seattle, courtesy of data from the Washington State Employment Security Department. The style of these charts are stolen from the excellent San Diego housing reporter Rich Toscano.
First up, here’s a two-year chart (stolen from my subscription journal Sound Housing Quarterly) of the year-over-year change in [...]
Rich Toscano posted a great breakdown of the job situation down in San Diego yesterday that I thought was an interesting way to look at the data, so I’m shamelessly and blatantly copying it.
The following chart shows the volume of job gains or losses in the last 12 months in some of the largest Seattle-area [...]
Latest state unemployment figures came out yesterday. Here’s a brief look.
Seattle area’s (King/Snohomish) unemployment rate (not seasonally adjusted):
And here’s a graph that I created for Sound Housing Quarterly, which shows the percentage change year-over-year in various job categories, also for King/Snohomish:
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