November Unemployment Rate Increases

Liz Gullett

Dec 22, 2017

According to numbers released this week by the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget, Michigan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for November 2017 was 4.6%, an increase of one-tenth of a percentage point. Total employment for the month advanced by 11,000, while the number of unemployed increased by 6,000. While the month-to-month rate increased, last month’s rate was half of a percentage point below the November 2016 rate of 5.1%.

In the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn market, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate last month was 4.3%, an increase of four-tenths of a percentage point. Despite the increase, this marks the fifth consecutive month the region’s jobless rate was below the state’s unemployment rate.

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