September 2024

The September 2024 issue of Trends includes the following articles and features: 

  • Uranium Mining Employment Increases in Wyoming
    • Uranium employment in Wyoming is a relatively small industry, but it has been growing recently, and spot prices and news reports suggest that employment levels will likely continue to rise.
  • Entrepreneurship in Wyoming, Part 1: Using Administrative Data to Identify New Business Actualization
    • This article is the beginning of a series of reports creating entrepreneurship metrics relying on administrative data rather than survey data for Wyoming. The first metric reported in this analysis is new business actualization, which is defined as the share of business applications that become employers in the calendar year.
  • New Data on the Demographics of Wyoming’s Labor Market
  • Wyoming Unemployment Unchanged at 2.9% in July 2024
  • Current Employment Statistics (CES) Estimates and Research & Planning’s Internal Estimates, July 2024Current Employment Statistics Graphs
  • State Unemployment Rates (Seasonally Adjusted)
  • Wyoming Nonagricultural Wage and Salary Employment
  • State Unemployment Rates (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
  • Economic Indicators
  • County Unemployment Rates
  • Wyoming Normalized Unemployment Insurance Statistics: Initial Claims
  • Wyoming Normalized Unemployment Insurance Statistics: Continued Claims

The September 2024 issue of Wyoming Labor Force Trends is available at https://doe.state.wy.us/LMI/trends/0924/toc.htm.

Back issues of Trends can be found at https://doe.state.wy.us/lmi/BACKISS.HTM.


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