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Wyoming unemployment ticked up to 3.5% in December but still below national rate

A map of Wyoming with each county's unemployment rate in December 2024.
Wyoming Department of Workforce Services

This story is part of our Quick Hits series. This series will bring you breaking news and short updates from throughout the state.

Wyoming’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose in December to 3.5%.

That’s .2% over November and continues a gradually rising trend since July. Wyoming Department of Workforce Services calls the upward tick normal for the season, as colder weather usually means job losses in construction and other sectors.

The department says Converse, Teton and Weston counties tied for the lowest unemployment rate in December 2024, each at 3%. The highest unemployment rates were reported in Sublette County at 4.7%, Big Horn County at 4.4% and Sweetwater County at 4.3%.

Compared to December 2023, unemployment rates rose in every county by about a point.

Wyoming’s rate remains below the national unemployment rate of 4.1%.

Nicky has reported and edited for public radio stations in Montana and produced episodes for NPR's The Indicator podcast and Apple News In Conversation. Her award-winning series, SubSurface, dug into the economic, environmental and social impacts of a potential invasion of freshwater mussels in Montana's waterbodies. She traded New Hampshire's relatively short but rugged White Mountains for the Rockies over a decade ago. The skiing here is much better.

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