Connecticut added 4,600 jobs in March, a 0.3% uptick, while the state’s unemployment rate fell to 4.6%, according to new data from the state”™s Department of Labor, which added Connecticut has now recovered 81.8% (236,800) of the 289,400 nonfarm positions lost in the March and April 2020 Covid period.
“Connecticut has had two consecutive months of solid job increases to build on the growth we saw last year,” said Patrick Flaherty, director of the Office of Research at the Connecticut Department of Labor. “Construction and manufacturing have shown particular strength in recent months. The unemployment rate declined 2.4% points in the past year. Before the pandemic, there had not been a 12-month period with a decline that large since the 1970s.”
Connecticut’s private sector gained 5,500 jobs (0.4%) in March 2022 to a level of 1.42 million, but the government supersector lost 900 jobs (-0.4%) last month to a level of 224,700. Within Fairfield County, Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk corridor saw the loss of 1,200 positions while the Greater Danbury are added 100 positions.
