The state employment security department released the monthly employment report today. The preliminary estimates are that the state added 4,100 jobs (seasonally adjusted) between April and May and that the unemployment rate in May was 6.8 percent (seasonally adjusted). The estimate of the number of jobs added from March to April was decreased from 3,800 to 1,700.

The full report is available here.

The survey upon which these estimates are based is prone to sampling error. Monthly employment numbers may be substantially revised when complete counts become available from unemployment insurance tax records.

Here is a chart of employment losses over the 11 recessions since 1948: