The Bureau of Labor Statistics is basically back on schedule with their posting in the past few days of employment and unemployment data from April (they were weeks late with March’s data). 

We’ve just posted the free PDF file for this month’s data (current though April 2008) detailing state by state employment growth.  Here’s a link to our Free Resources page where the PDF is posted. 

As always the states are ranked in our posting based on a 6 month rolling average of the reported total nonfarm employment growth provided by the BLS; the number the BLS reports is the annualized growth rate, which of course changes every month.  We still think the 6 month rolling average tends to dampen out the swings in data the BLS tends to report and then later revise. 

Wyoming continues to lead the way with a 3.2% growth rate, followed by Texas and Utah at 2.5%, Louisiana and Washington at 2.1%.  Nine of the top ten and twelve of the top fifteen states are west of the Mississippi once again. 

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