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Monthly jobs report shows slow growth for Kansas, Missouri

December 2021

Each state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate displayed a slight decline in November, Kansas at 3.6 percent from October’s 3.9, and Missouri 3.5 percent from 3.7 in October. The modest improvement shows job growth remains slow nearly two years after the onset of COVID-19.

Preliminary estimates reported by the Labor Market Information Services division of the Kansas Department of Labor and the Bureau of Labor Statistics show a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.6 percent in November.

This was a decrease from 3.9 percent in October and a decrease from 4.7 percent in November 2020.

Missouri’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.5 percent in November 2021, down from 3.7 percent in October 2021. Missouri’s recovery continued with an increase of 73,300 jobs from November 2020 to November 2021.

Seasonally adjusted job estimates indicate total Kansas nonfarm jobs increased by 2,700 from October. Private sector jobs, a subset of total nonfarm jobs, increased by 2,400 from the previous month, while government increased by 300.

Missouri non-farm payroll employment increased from October 2021 to November 2021, and the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased by two-tenths of a percentage point. Employment, seasonally adjusted, increased by 7,600 jobs over the month, with job gains in both the goods-producing and service-providing industries.

Since November 2020, Kansas seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs have increased by 35,400. This change is due to an increase of 33,000 private sector jobs and 2,400 government jobs.