Private sector job growth increased just 500 positions (0.03%) in June but is responsible for all of the nonfarm job gains over the year (14,400, 1.0%). Government entities were also higher in June (1,200, 0.5%), but still showing losses - declining 9,100 jobs (-3.7%) over the year. Local government groupings look especially weak over the year (-6,900, -4.3%) this month, mostly driven by very late school closings in June 2013. Also the state is no longer seeing the usual summer uptick in tribal casino hiring, which is measured in local government, as occurred in years past.

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.