The unemployment rate in Mason County dropped again in June. According to the Employment Security Department, the County’s unemployment rate last month is 6.1 percent which is down three-tenths of a percentage point from May’s revised unemployment rate of 6.4 percent and down 1.6 percent from June 2016’s 7.7 percent unemployment rate. This is the fifth month in a row that the unemployment rate in Mason County has decreased and the lowest monthly rate since June 2007 when it hit 6 percent. The lowest monthly unemployment rate for the County on record is 5.1 percent, which occurred in July 1990 and again in October of that year.
With the exception of Thurston County, adjacent counties also saw decreases in unemployment in June. Grays Harbor County had a half percent drop to 6.4 percent. Jefferson County saw a three-tenths of a percent drop to 5.5 percent. There was a two-tenths of a percentage point decrease in Lewis County (5.1%) last month. Kitsap County (4.7%) and Pierce County (5.1%) was drops of one-tenth of a percent. And Thurston County’s unemployment rate held steady at 4.7 percent.
