(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE—In this file photo from May 5, 2021, a vehicle speeds by a hiring sign offering a $500 bonus outside a McDonalds restaurant, in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pa. Pennsylvania will resume work search requirements in July for hundreds of thousands of people receiving unemployment compensation, a top Wolf administration official said Monday, May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania Deaprtment of Labor & Industry, that department released its preliminary employment situation report for July of 2025. The rate for unemployment in Pennsylvania in July of 2025 was at 4 percent, which was unchanged from June of 2025. July of 2025 was the 27th month in a row that the rate for unemployment in Pennsylvania was below or at the average rate for unemployment in the United States, which went up to 4.2 percent in July of 2025, which was an increase from June of 2025 by one-tenth of a point. According to that sam release from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, here are some recent statistics following their report today on preliminary employment situation for July of 2025.
| Current Labor Force Statistics | |||||||
| Seasonally Adjusted | |||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||
| Change from | Change from | ||||||
| July | June | July | June 2025 | July 2024 | |||
| 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | volume | percent | volume | percent | |
| PA | |||||||
| Civilian Labor Force | 6,537 | 6,540 | 6,571 | -3 | 0.0% | -34 | -0.5% |
| Employment | 6,274 | 6,280 | 6,335 | -6 | -0.1% | -61 | -1.0% |
| Unemployment | 263 | 260 | 237 | 3 | 1.2% | 26 | 11.0% |
| Rate | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 0.0 | —- | 0.4 | —- |
| U.S. | |||||||
| Civilian Labor Force | 170,342 | 170,380 | 168,315 | -38 | 0.0% | 2,027 | 1.2% |
| Employment | 163,106 | 163,366 | 161,219 | -260 | -0.2% | 1,887 | 1.2% |
| Unemployment | 7,236 | 7,015 | 7,097 | 221 | 3.2% | 139 | 2.0% |
| Rate | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 0.1 | —- | 0.0 | —- |
| Note: August 2025 labor force and nonfarm jobs statistics will be released on September 19th, 2025. | |||||||
| Pennsylvania Nonagricultural Wage and Salary Employment | |||||||
| Seasonally Adjusted | |||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||
| Change from | Change from | ||||||
| July | June | July | June 2025 | July 2024 | |||
| 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | volume | percent | volume | percent | |
| Total Nonfarm Jobs | 6,237.2 | 6,230.1 | 6,139.6 | 7.1 | 0.1% | 97.6 | 1.6% |
| Goods Producing Industries | 843.5 | 843.3 | 844.2 | 0.2 | 0.0% | -0.7 | -0.1% |
| Mining & Logging | 21.5 | 21.7 | 21.6 | -0.2 | -0.9% | -0.1 | -0.5% |
| Construction | 260.2 | 260.1 | 259.7 | 0.1 | 0.0% | 0.5 | 0.2% |
| Manufacturing | 561.8 | 561.5 | 562.9 | 0.3 | 0.1% | -1.1 | -0.2% |
| Service Providing Industries | 5,393.7 | 5,386.8 | 5,295.4 | 6.9 | 0.1% | 98.3 | 1.9% |
| Trade, Transportation & Utilities | 1,143.1 | 1,143.4 | 1,139.7 | -0.3 | 0.0% | 3.4 | 0.3% |
| Information | 90.1 | 89.9 | 90.2 | 0.2 | 0.2% | -0.1 | -0.1% |
| Financial Activities | 346.5 | 343.5 | 339.7 | 3.0 | 0.9% | 6.8 | 2.0% |
| Professional & Business Services | 842.2 | 840.7 | 833.9 | 1.5 | 0.2% | 8.3 | 1.0% |
| Education & Health Services | 1,414.1 | 1,408.2 | 1,363.7 | 5.9 | 0.4% | 50.4 | 3.7% |
| Leisure & Hospitality | 584.2 | 587.1 | 566.8 | -2.9 | -0.5% | 17.4 | 3.1% |
| Other Services | 270.0 | 270.7 | 262.1 | -0.7 | -0.3% | 7.9 | 3.0% |
| Government | 703.5 | 703.3 | 699.3 | 0.2 | 0.0% | 4.2 | 0.6% |