Construction employment started 2019 with a surge of 52,000 jobs in January but the industry’s jobless rate posted mixed results, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported.
The first monthly BLS employment snaphot dealing with the new year, released on Feb. 1, shows that construction’s January unemployment rate rose to 6.4% from December’s 5.1%. But last month’s rate was an improvement from the year-earlier level of 7.3%.