Nevada adds 3,600 jobs in September

Nevada businesses added back 3,600 jobs in September with Las Vegas, Reno and Carson City all reporting gains.

The state has now added 66,600 jobs over the past year, bringing the total employment level to 1.46 million.

The state unemployment rate remains at 4.4 percent, the same as it was in August.

Las Vegas accounted for 2,100 of those additional jobs but Reno did well with an additional 1,900 jobs. For Las Vegas, that is an increase of 51,900 jobs in the past year. In the Reno reporting area, 11,600 jobs were added since September 2021.

Carson City increased by just 100 jobs during the month but has added 900 jobs in the past year.

The reason the jobless rate has remained at 4.4 percent for the past three months is that, while more people are going back to work, the number of people in the pool actively looking for work has increased by nearly10,000, according to Chief Economist David Schmidt of the Department of Employment Training and Rehabilitation.

In Carson City, the jobless rate is 3.8 percent with just 986 of 21,146 looking for work.

In Washoe County, that rate is 3.4 percent, or 8,927 people seeking work out of 260,014 in the labor pool.

Storey County reports 4.1 percent out of work — 88 of 2,129.

Churchill County has 417 jobless in a pool of 10,977 workers, an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent.

Finally, Douglas County has a rate of 4.1 percent with 884 looking in a pool of 21,775.

Clark County remains the highest unemployment rate in Nevada at 5.7 percent. Of that county’s 1.15 million workers, 66,355 remain out of work.