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March 17, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Department of Workforce Secretary Greg Reed announced today that Alabama's labor force participation rate for January held steady at 57.6%. The percentage of prime-age workers by three-tenths of a percentage point to 78.9 % over the year. Prime-age workers are those aged 25-54 years. "We continue to see gains in the participation of prime-age workers in Alabama," said Reed. "That means that more than three out of four of these workers are in the labor fo...
March 18, 2025 - MONTGOMERY - Data collected and analyzed by the Alabama Department of Workforce's Labor Market Information (LMI) Division shows that in January 2025, there were 82,508 job ads posted in Alabama, representing a monthly increase of 14.8%. The five occupations with the most online job ads are for Registered Nurses, Retail Salespersons, Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers, and Fast Food and Counter Workers with 11,699 ads placed for those o...
