Oil & Gas industry gains 8,000 jobs in May
The U.S unemployment rate has now dropped to 3.8%. Unemployment rates have not been this low since 2000, and the trajectory is down from double digit unemployment in 2009-2010 in the wake of the Great Recession.
In total, payroll unemployment decreased by 223,000 in May bringing the total number of unemployed persons to 6.1 million, which was distributed across several industries including oil and gas extraction (+8,000), construction (+25,000), and professional and technical services (+23,000).