Danville’s unemployment rate continued to improve in the month of November, extending the rate decline since the initial spike at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The city’s unemployment rate is now at 7.9 percent, down three tenths of a percent from October.
Vermilion County currently has a 6.1 percent unemployment rate, down one tenth of a percent from the October rate, which was 6.2 percent.
The statewide unemployment rate fell half a percentage point in November, finishing at 6.9 percent. That number is according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security. The state did lose 20,000 jobs during the month.
Illinois’ rate was two-tenths of a percent higher than the national unemployment rate for November, which was 6.7 percent.
In May, Governor J.B. Pritzker launched Get Hired Illinois, a new one-stop-shop website to help job seekers with hiring employers in real time. The site features virtual job fairs, no-cost virtual training, and includes Illinois Job Link, the state’s largest job search engine, which recently showed 49,114 posted resumes with 87,490 available jobs.
