Another month brought another all-time low for Georgia’s unemployment rate in December, as it dipped to 2.6%.
For the third month in a row, that’s the lowest level since current records began in 1976, falling from 2.8% in November and less than half the 5.3% reported in December 2021.
A record number of people reported having a job in Georgia — more than 5 million. But the state’s labor force barely grew, having been basically flat for months, as employer demand drains the pool of available workers.
Georgia’s jobless rate has fallen for 20 consecutive months since hitting an all-time high of 12.5% at the start of the pandemic in April 2020.
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