Achieving the nation’s lowest unemployment rate last month apparently wasn’t enough for the Salt Lake metro area. Like a good limbo dancer, it just showed it could go even lower.
Its unemployment rate is now 1.9%, a shade lower than the 2.0% reported a month earlier, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That rate for October, for the second straight month, is the lowest in the nation for large metro areas with at least 1 million people.
The agency estimates that only 12,442 people out of the nearly 700,000 workers in the Salt Lake metro area are unemployed and actively seeking a job.