Updated: July 21, 2017

Tennessee’s unemployment rate for June is 3.6 percent, the lowest in Tennessee recorded history, according to Governor Bill Haslam and Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips.

The June 2017 preliminary seasonally adjusted rate surpasses the previous low of 3.7 percent from March 2000. The state has not experienced an unemployment rate below 4.0 percent since it was 3.9 percent in February 2001.

This month’s unemployment shift is largely due to declines in the seasonally adjusted labor force. Over the past year, Tennessee has led the decrease in seasonally adjusted unemployment rates, declining from 4.7 percent to the current 3.6 percent.

The national preliminary rate increased by one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month to 4.4 percent, lingering in the 4.0 percentile.