Pasadena, Altadena July Unemployment Holds Below 5% as Los Angeles County Stays at 5.2%
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Updated · Pasadena Now · Aug 23
Pasadena, Altadena July Unemployment Holds Below 5% as Los Angeles County Stays at 5.2%
3 articles · Updated · Pasadena Now · Aug 23
Summary
Pasadena’s preliminary July unemployment rate fell to 4.7% from 4.8% in June and 5.7% a year earlier, while Altadena held at 4.6%, down from 5.5% last July.
Los Angeles County posted a 5.2% unadjusted July rate, leaving both communities below the county level even as local figures are not seasonally adjusted and not directly comparable with headline county data.
Pasadena counted 3,600 unemployed residents in a 76,500 labor force; Altadena had 1,000 unemployed in a labor force of 21,100, with both its unemployed count and labor force shrinking from a year earlier.
Countywide payrolls fell by 40,700 from June on an unadjusted basis, driven largely by a 33,100 drop in government jobs, while California’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate edged down to 5.1% and the U.S. rate to 4.1%.