Kansas Adds 3,300 Jobs in June as Unemployment Holds at 3.8%
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Updated · Salina Post · Jul 19
Kansas Adds 3,300 Jobs in June as Unemployment Holds at 3.8%
1 articles · Updated · Salina Post · Jul 19
Summary
Kansas added 3,300 nonfarm jobs in June, while the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held at 3.8% and stayed above 3.7% a year earlier.
Manufacturing drove the monthly gain with 2,700 new jobs, offsetting a 1,500 drop in private education and health services; private payrolls rose 3,500 while government jobs fell 200.
Saline County’s unemployment rate climbed to 3.7% from 3.3% in May, with smaller increases also reported in Dickinson, Ellsworth and Lincoln counties.
Kansas’s labor force participation rate slipped to 67.0% in June, even as total nonfarm employment remained up 12,100 from June 2025 on a 13,200 increase in private-sector jobs.