It’s becoming routine: Utah again led the nation in the percentage of job growth it achieved over the past 12 months, according to federal data released Friday.
The number of jobs in Utah grew by 3.5 percent from July 2017 to July 2018, best in the nation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Utah has been at or near the top of such ratings for months.
Two of its neighbors were just behind it in the latest rankings: Idaho and Nevada saw increases of 3.4 percent each. Alabama and Illinois had the slowest growth rates, at 1.