The unemployment rate in the San Luis Obispo County was 6.8 percent in March 2013, down from a revised 7.0 percent in February 2013, and below the year-ago estimate of 8.7 percent. This compares with an unadjusted unemployment rate of 9.4 percent for California and 7.6 percent for the nation during the same period.
Th improvement is nearly 2 full percentage points lower than year ago showing an economy on the mend.
In the past year the SLO economy added 4800 nonfarm jobs, 800 more in the past month.