The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area’s unemployment rate — seasonally adjusted — decreased a total of 0.8 percentage points from July 2016 to July 2017 to 4.9 percent.
Pittsburgh’s jobless rate was higher than the benchmark average of 3.7 percent and was the second-highest unemployment rate of all benchmark regions in July.
This data comes from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program.