SALT LAKE CITY (March 24, 2023) — Utah’s nonfarm payroll employment for February 2023 increased an estimated 2.8% across the past 12 months, with the state’s economy adding a cumulative 46,000 jobs since February 2022. Utah’s current job count stands at 1,701,000.

February’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate is estimated at 2.4%. Approximately 42,300 Utahns are unemployed. January’s unemployment rate is unrevised at 2.4%. The February national unemployment rate moved upward to 3.6%. More...

Photo credit: DesignBuildUTAH@Bluff 

Architecture is more than just designing and building structures. How the structures will be used can turn a simple design into something special. Each year, graduate students from the University of Utah architecture program DesignBuildUTAH@Bluff travel to Bluff, Utah to build a project for the Navajo Nation. More...