(Credit for Photo: Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) released its preliminary employment situation report for September of 2026 today.

The unemployment rate in Pennsylvania was down one-tenth of a percentage point over the month to 3.6 percent in September of 2026, which is the lowest rate in three years and only one-tenth above the record low that was set in summer of 2023 just five months after Governor Josh Shapiro took office.

The unemployment rate in Pennsylvania was six-tenths of a percentage point below the unemployment rate in the United States, which was up one-tenth of a percentage point from August of 2026 to 4.2 percent.