Unemployment rates are decreasing in Syracuse

WAER | By Scott Willis

Published October 27, 2022 at 6:48 PM EDT

A woman stands and supervises as a man, who is sitting, works on a computer. — A woman stands and supervises a colleague as he works on a computer.

Latest numbers from the New York Department of Labor show Syracuse’s unemployment rate fell to 3.1% last month.

That’s down from 4% since last year and is on par with most other large upstate cities. Rochester also comes in at 3.1%, and Buffalo-Niagara posted at 3.3%. The numbers were similar across most counties in Central New York, ranging from 2.8% in Madison to 3.6% in Oswego.

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Scott Willis covers politics, local government, transportation, and arts and culture for WAER. He came to Syracuse from Detroit in 2001, where he began his career in radio as an intern and freelance reporter. Scott is honored and privileged to bring the day’s news and in-depth feature reporting to WAER’s dedicated and generous listeners. You can find him on twitter @swillisWAER and email him at srwillis@syr.edu.

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