Construction employment kept on its recent upward path in August, as the industry gained a solid 22,000 jobs with increases in nearly all industry sectors, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported.
The bureau’s latest monthly report on U.S. employment, released on Sept. 1, also showed that construction’s August unemployment rate was 3.9%, the same as the July and year-earlier figures.
BLS noted that construction’s August increase of 22,000 was “in line” with the industry’s average monthly increase of 17,000 for the past 12 months.
