Hiring Youth

Header: Workforce Advantage
Does your business plan include strategies to engage youth as part of your workforce? Hiring youth helps you develop talent, build economic success and sustainability and prepare for the future. More...

Utah's Employment Summary: March 2023



SALT LAKE CITY (April 21, 2023)  — Utah’s nonfarm payroll employment for March 2023 increased an estimated 2.7% across the past 12 months, with the state’s economy adding a cumulative 44,100 jobs since March 2022. Utah’s current job count stands at 1,705,400.


March’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate is estimated at 2.4%. Approximately 41,700 Utahns are unemployed. Utah’s February unemployment rate is unrevised at 2.4%. The March national unemployment rate moved down one notch to 3.5%. More...





Labor Force Participation in the State of Utah


By Gwen Kervin, Regional Economist

The labor force participation rate in the United States is lower now than before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted labor markets in early 2020. However, the country's labor force participation rate has been declining for the past two decades, mainly due to demographic shifts. Although COVID-19 initially affected labor force participation in both Utah and the United States, Utah's labor force participation rate has fully recovered, hovering around 68.5% by the end of 2022, compared to 68.3% in January 2020. The labor force participation rate in the United States was 62.3% at the end of 2022, down from 63.3% in January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic. More...