Phil Blair Blair: “Seasonal hiring helped push the unemployment rate to a low we haven’t seen in 17 years.”

SAN DIEGO—San Diego Regional EDC reports that San Diego’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.3% in November, adding 12,100 non-farm jobs counting for 50,038 unique job postings since October. Seasonal hiring is largely responsible for this market’s impressive job-growth numbers, which could cause wages to increase as well, according to Manpower San Diego‘s president and CEO Phil Blair.

“Seasonal hiring helped push the unemployment rate to a low we haven’t seen in 17 years,” said Blair in a prepared statement. He added that with the labor market this tight, wages can only go up.

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