- 5th lowest rate by WIA in PA
- Bensalem Township: 6.0%
- Bristol Township: 6.9%
- Falls Township: 5.4%
- Lower Makefield Township: 3.9%
- Middletown Township: 4.8%
- Northampton Township: 4.4%
- Warminster Township: 5.6%
- Warrington Township: 4.7%
(Townships and boroughs are not seasonally adjusted) - Nonfarm Jobs: 1.923M (88.9% private, 11.1% public; annual change: +0.8%) (NSA; includes other counties)
- Regular UC Initial Claims: 2,300 (annual change: -12.4%) (NSA)
- There are 7,100 online job postings (Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine (HWOL) dataset for May 2014). This equates to 2.5 unemployed persons per online job posting, or 6.0 using an estimated U-6 unemployment rate of 12.1%.
Top Online Job Postings by Occupation:
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
- Retail Salespersons
- First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
Top Online Job Postings by Employer:
- Wells Fargo
- Roehl
- Grand View Hospital
U.S. data: unless noted, seasonally adjusted June 2014 data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
PA and Bucks County data: unless noted, seasonally adjusted May 2014 data provided by PA Department of Labor
and Industry’s Center for Workforce Information and Analysis (CWIA)NSA: Not seasonally adjusted
Prepared for the Bucks County Workforce Investment Board July 2014