California’s unemployment rate stayed steady from December 2021 into January 2022 at 5.8 percent as the state’s employers added 53,600 nonfarm payroll jobs to the economy, according to data released today by the California Employment Development Department (EDD) from two surveys. December’s unemployment rate was revised down 0.7 percentage points to 5.8 percent due to updated benchmarking figures that showed an increase of 248,200 jobs for that month.
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