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Wyoming Economic Indicators


Wyoming's unemployment rate (not seasonally adjusted) fell slightly from 4.4 percent in May to 4.3 percent in June. The seasonally adjusted rate also changed by only 0.1 percent, suggesting that the rates are typical for this time of year.


PERCENT CHANGE
JUNE 1997 (p) MAY 1997 (r) JUNE 1996 (b) MONTH YEAR
Wyoming Total Civilian Labor Force ¹ 262,643 255,077 263,397 3.0 -0.3
--Unemployed 11,380 11,124 11,966 2.3 -4.9
--Employed 251,263 243,953 251,431 3.0 -0.1
Wyoming Unemployment Rate/Seas. Adj. 4.3%/4.9% 4.4%/4.8% 4.5%/5.2% N/A N/A
U.S. Unemployment Rate/Seas. Adj. 5.2%/5.0% 4.7%/4.8% 5.5%/5.3% N/A N/A
PERCENT CHANGE
JUNE 1997 (p) MAY 1997 (r) JUNE 1996 (b) MONTH YEAR
Wyoming Mining Hours & Earnings for Production Workers
--Average Weekly Earnings $857.28 $851.76 $754.39 0.6 13.6
--Average Weekly Hours 47.6 46.8 45.2 1.7 5.3
U.S. Mining Hours & Earnings
--Average Weekly Earnings $739.88 $734.40 $716.68 0.7 3.2
--Average Weekly Hours 45.7 45.9 46.0 -0.4 -0.7
Wyoming Manufacturing Hours & Earnings
--Average Weekly Earnings $587.32 $580.77 $538.48 1.1 9.1
--Average Weekly Hours 41.1 40.5 41.2 1.5 -0.2
U.S. Manufacturing Hours & Earnings
--Average Weekly Earnings $550.62 $548.47 $534.23 0.4 3.1
--Average Weekly Hours 42.0 41.9 41.9 0.2 0.2
PERCENT CHANGE
JUNE 1997 (p) MAY 1997 (r) JUNE 1996 (b) MONTH YEAR
Unemployment Insurance
--Weeks Claimed ² 13,097 14,462 14,930 -9.4 -12.3
----Initial Claims ² 1,455 1,559 1,599 -6.7 -9.0
--Weeks Compensated 8,828 11,383 11,468 -22.4 -23.0
--Benefits Paid $1,480,223.00 $1,900,626.00 $2,013,867.00 -22.1 -26.5
--Average Weekly Benefit Payment $167.67 $166.97 $175.61 0.4 -4.5
--State Insured Covered Jobs ¹ 211,250 203,411 214,715 3.9 -1.6
--Wyoming Insured Unemployment Rate 1.2% 1.6% 1.6% N/A N/A
PERCENT CHANGE
JUNE 1997 (p) MAY 1997 (r) JUNE 1996 (b) MONTH YEAR
Employment Service
--Applications Received 3,976 3,109 3,692 27.9 7.7
--Openings Received 3,638 2,832 3,106 28.5 17.1
--Individuals Placed 1,898 1,081 1,648 75.6 15.2
--Placement Transactions 2,850 1,738 2,505 64.0 13.8
PERCENT CHANGE
JUNE 1997 (p) MAY 1997 (r) JUNE 1996 (b) MONTH YEAR
Consumer Price Index (U) for All U.S. Urban Consumers (1982 to 1984 = 100)
--All Items 160.3 160.1 156.7 0.1 2.3
----Food and Beverage 157.1 157.1 153.1 0.0 2.6
----Housing 156.9 155.9 152.7 0.6 2.8
----Apparel & Upkeep 132.4 135.3 130.8 -2.1 1.2
----Transportation 144.0 144.4 144.0 -0.3 0.0
----Medical Care 234.4 234.2 227.8 0.1 2.9
----Entertainment 162.7 162.2 159.0 0.3 2.3
----Other Goods & Services 223.1 223.1 214.0 0.0 4.3
Producer Prices (1982 to 1984 = 100)
--All Commodities 127.2 127.3 127.9 -0.1 -0.5


(p) Preliminary.
(r) Revised.
(b) Benchmarked.


1 Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program estimates.
2 These figures may differ from those in Wyoming Unemployment Insurance Statistics: Initial Claims and Wyoming Unemployment Insurance Statistics: Continued Claims because they are derived from different sources.



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