HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania’s unemployment slid a bit down in June after hitting a pandemic peak in April, but it was well above the national rate even as payrolls rebounded by more 230,000, the state reported Friday.Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate was 13% in June, down four-tenths of a percentage point from May’s adjusted rate, the state Department of Labor and Industry said.
It had initially estimated Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate at 13.1% in May. The state’s rate went over 16% in April, the highest rate in more than four decades of record-keeping.But May’s preliminary figure was adjusted upward to 13.4%.
The national rate was 11.1% in June.Last year, Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate hit a nearly two-decade low of 4.1%.At 13% in June,.