The unemployment rate crept up 0.1 percent in November to 4.7 percent, despite the addition of 5,900 jobs to the economy, according to a press release from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.
Most of those new jobs were in the fields of construction, financial activities, education, health services and manufacturing. So far this year, 67,700 jobs have been added to the Bay State economy.
“The commonwealth continues to add jobs, and we are very pleased we have surpassed the total job gains for 2014. The state continues to show signs of economic strength,” Labor and Workforce Development secretary Ronald L. Walker II said in the release.
The November state unemployment rate remains lower than the national rate of 5 percent reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.



