The Hawai‘i State Department of Labor & Industrial Relations announced that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for September was 6.4 percent, a 0.2 percentage point increase from 6.2 percent in August.
The State’s job count received a boost from the opening of a new resort on Oahu as well as a rise in visitor related water transportation in September.
There were 591,850 employed and 40,250 unemployed in September, for a total seasonally adjusted labor force of 632,100.
Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.1 percent.
The divergence between the increase in job count and the decline in labor force employment is likely due to an increase in multiple jobholders.
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