Vermont’s unemployment held steady in July with a seasonally adjusted rate of 3.6 percent.
Labor Commissioner Annie Noonan said July’s data didn’t have any big surprises.
“The last few months have seen little change from the slow, but positive, trend of the Vermont economy,” she said in a news release. “The only large change in the data was the seasonally expected end of the public education school year.”
Vermont’s numbers are still well-below the national average of 5.3 percent, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The state’s unemployment rate is also 0.5 percent below its July 2014 rate of 4.1 percent.
Seasonally adjusted, the state’s labor force grew slightly from 349,000 in June to 349,400 in July.
