Local government hiring fueled San Diego County's job growth last month and nudged the unemployment rate down to 4.4 percent in March, state labor officials reported Friday. The county figure is below the state rate of 5.3 percent but higher than the U.S. average of 3.9 percent for the same period. It's also down from the local February revised rate of 4.8 percent.
The labor force was unchanged between February and March. The largest annual job declines were in the professional and business services sector, which lost about 10,600 jobs since last March. This includes legal, scientific, waste management and architectural jobs — often San Diego's higher-paying jobs in key segments like biotechnology.
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