Connecticut’s seasonally adjusted nonfarm job growth year-to-date through October 2013 has reached 11,000 jobs (1,100 per month). This is slightly better than the 9,600 jobs pace through October of 2012 (960 per month). In 2011, the first ten months brought 10,400 jobs (1,040 per month) and in 2010, the year the employment recovery originated, the year-to-date October gain was also 10,400 (1,040 per month). Job growth during the first ten months of each year of the recovery has been modest but quite consistent in the state.

Nonfarm employment estimates are derived from a survey of businesses to measure jobs by industry. The estimates include all full- and parttime wage and salary employees who worked during or received pay for the pay period which includes the 12th of the month. Excluded from these estimates are proprietors, self-employed workers, private household employees and unpaid family workers. In some cases, due to space constraints, all industry estimates are not shown. Call (860) 263-6275 for a more comprehensive breakout of nonfarm employment estimates. These data are developed in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The employed are all persons who did any work as paid employees or in their own business during the survey week, or who have worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a family member. Persons temporarily absent from a job because of illness, bad weather, strike or for personal reasons are also counted as employed whether they were paid by their employer or were seeking other jobs.

The unemployed are all persons who did not work, but were available for work during the survey week (except for temporary illness) and made specific efforts to find a job in the prior four weeks. Persons waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not be looking for work to be classified as unemployed.