May 25,2015
The unemployment rate in the San Luis Obispo County was 4.3 percent in April 2015, down from a revised 4.6 percent in March 2015, and below the year-ago estimate of 5.1 percent. Non farm jobs are up 2700 from a year ago and farm jobs saw a decline of 100.
The 4.3% rate is the lowest since 2007, per-recession years. The 4.3% rate is 14% lower than a year ago.
The last April it was this low was 2007 when the jobless rate was 3.8%.
The unemployment rate in the county compares with an unadjusted unemployment rate of 6.1 percent for California and 5.1 percent for the nation during the same period.