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Colorado’s unemployment rate has risen to 5.8 percent as the number of people in the workforce fell by 8,900 in November.
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment said Friday the jobless rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point from October and 1.8 percentage points from November of last year.
Nonfarm wage and salary employment declined by 5,500, a much bigger drop than labor officials expected.
The biggest losses were in construction, professional and business services, and leisure and hospitality. It was the third straight monthly decline in wage and salary jobs, the longest stretch in the state since early 2003. The national unemployment rate was 6.7 percent in November.
