Preliminary Estimates reported by the Kansas Department of Labor and Bureau of Labor Statistics show a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.3 percent in September. This was unchanged from August and down from 3.6 percent in September 2017.
Kansas Secretary of Labor Lana Gordon says that this is the fifth consecutive month the number of unemployed Kansans was under the 50 thousand, the smallest number since January of 2000. Seasonally adjusted job estimates indicate total Kansas nonfarm jobs decreased by 6,900 from August. Private sector jobs, a subset of total nonfarm jobs, decreased by 3,800 from the previous month. Senior Labor Economist Tyler Tenbrink comments:
Since September 2017, Kansas Gained 19,600 seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs and 14,600 private sector jobs.
