The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development reported this afternoon that the state’s unemployment rate for February remained unchanged at 3.5 percent for the fifth consecutive month.
The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has been at or below 3.5 percent since January 2022.
During the past year, Tennessee employers added 103,300 jobs to their payrolls. There were 4,800 new nonfarm jobs reported across the state in February 2023.
The national unemployment rate for February was 3.6 percent, up from 3.4 percent in January.
County unemployment data will be released next week.
