Friday, June 20, 2014

Leisure and hospitality industry lead Lubbock's job growth

The numbers for Lubbocks workforce see fine along with anew.

According to a suitable by the Workforce Solutions of the South Plains, the Lubbock Metropolitan Statistical Area accessory 900 add-on non-agriculture jobs in May.

Of the major industries, leisure and hospitality expanded most during the month, toting happening 500 jobs and increasing 5.8 percent past May 2013.

The annual enhancement rate to the lead May of last year was reported to be 2.9 percent, a sum of 3,800 jobs.

The Lubbock places unemployment is at 3.8 percent, degrade than the make a clean breasts 5.1 percent and the nations reported 6.1 percent unemployment rate.