Connecticut’s seasonally adjusted nonfarm job growth year-to-date through December 2013 has been 11,500 jobs (958 per month). This is more than the 8,600 jobs gained in the year-to-date through December of 2012 (718 per month). In 2011, the twelve months of the year produced 14,300 jobs (1,192 per month) and in 2010, the year the employment recovery started, the year-to-date December gain was 9,900 (825 per month).

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.