HONOLULU (AP) – Hawaii had a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 6.5 percent in October – up 0.1 percentage point from th previous month.
The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said Friday the state’s labor force included 633,900 people in October.
Of this total, more than 592,000 had jobs and more than 41,000 were unemployed.
Nationwide, the seasonally adjusted jobless rate was 9 percent last month.
Honolulu had the lowest unemployment rate of any of the state’s four counties.
In Honolulu, the unemployment rate rose slightly from October last year to a seasonally unadjusted 5.6 percent.
The county with the highest rate was Hawaii, where the unemployment rate was 9.3 percent. In Kauai County, it was 8.5 percent. In Maui County, it was 7.6 percent.
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