As overall employment declined at the beginning of this year, so did the number of manufacturing jobs Pittsburgh has to offer.
Although the city’s January unemployment rate has not yet been released, Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate remained at 8.8 percent that month, keeping it below the national unemployment rate of 9.7 percent. Pittsburgh had unemployment rate of 7.8 percent during December 2009.
The city had a total non-farm employment of 1,092,200 workers during January, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is down from 1,120,000 workers during December and a 1.8 percent decrease from last year.