Ohio’s Unemployment Rate Declines to 3.3% in August - Business Journal Daily

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio’s unemployment rate was 3.3% in August, down from 3.4% in July, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported Friday. Ohio’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased 2,100 over the month, from a revised 5,686,600 in July to 5,688,700 in August. The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in August was 195,000, down from 200,000 in July. The number of unemployed has decreased by 66,000 in the past 12 months from 261,000. The August unemployment rate for Ohio decreased 1.1 percentage points from 4.4% in August 2025. The U.S. unemployment rate for August was 4.1%, unchanged from July and down from 4.3% in August 2025. In August, the labor force participation rate in Ohio was 61.3%, down from 61.