Washington state sees strong jobs growth in July

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Our state’s economy continued to add jobs while the unemployment rate hit an all-time low in July.

The Washington State Employment Security Department reports employers added 6,600 jobs last month, bringing the total of new jobs over the past year to almost 162,000.

Strong job growth was seen in the leisure and hospitality, government, construction, and information industries.

Mining and logging were the only industries that lost jobs.

July’s statewide unemployment rate was 3.7%, the lowest on record, and well below the 5.2% in the same month last year.