| Labor Force Data By County, Not Seasonally Adjusted | |||||||
| 01-2011 through 03-2014 | |||||||
| Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics | |||||||
| Unemploy. | Change over prior | ||||||
| County | Period | Labor Force | Employed | Unemployed | Rate % | years 2011 - 2014 | |
| Wicomico | 11-Jan | 52231 | 46838 | 5393 | 10.3 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Feb | 52981 | 47722 | 5259 | 9.9 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Mar | 53601 | 48743 | 4858 | 9.1 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Apr | 53259 | 48653 | 4606 | 8.6 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-May | 53678 | 48994 | 4684 | 8.7 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Jun | 54190 | 49160 | 5030 | 9.3 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Jul | 53873 | 48862 | 5011 | 9.3 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Aug | 53146 | 48132 | 5014 | 9.4 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Sep | 53850 | 48976 | 4874 | 9.1 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Oct | 53011 | 48201 | 4810 | 9.1 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Nov | 52599 | 47690 | 4909 | 9.3 | ||
| Wicomico | 11-Dec | 52369 | 47451 | 4918 | 9.4 | ||
| Wicomico | 12-Jan | 51936 | 46758 | 5178 | 10 | -295 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Feb | 52809 | 47651 | 5158 | 9.8 | -172 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Mar | 52995 | 48202 | 4793 | 9 | -606 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Apr | 52548 | 48193 | 4355 | 8.3 | -711 | |
| Wicomico | 12-May | 53647 | 49171 | 4476 | 8.3 | -31 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Jun | 54344 | 49585 | 4759 | 8.8 | 154 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Jul | 55112 | 50369 | 4743 | 8.6 | 1239 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Aug | 53792 | 49262 | 4530 | 8.4 | 646 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Sep | 53529 | 49208 | 4321 | 8.1 | -321 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Oct | 53333 | 48876 | 4457 | 8.4 | 322 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Nov | 52714 | 48180 | 4534 | 8.6 | 115 | |
| Wicomico | 12-Dec | 52867 | 48086 | 4781 | 9 | 498 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Jan | 51872 | 46806 | 5066 | 9.8 | -64 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Feb | 52155 | 47297 | 4858 | 9.3 | -654 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Mar | 52396 | 47872 | 4524 | 8.6 | -599 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Apr | 52204 | 48050 | 4154 | 8 | -344 | |
| Wicomico | 13-May | 53484 | 49261 | 4223 | 7.9 | -163 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Jun | 53517 | 48991 | 4526 | 8.5 | -827 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Jul | 54107 | 49843 | 4264 | 7.9 | -1005 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Aug | 53274 | 49302 | 3972 | 7.5 | -518 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Sep | 52763 | 48942 | 3821 | 7.2 | -766 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Oct | 52740 | 48814 | 3926 | 7.40% | -593 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Nov | 52563 | 48453 | 4110 | 7.80% | -151 | |
| Wicomico | 13-Dec | 52508 | 48494 | 4024 | 7.70% | -359 | |
| Wicomico | 14-Jan | 51049 | 46711 | 4338 | 8.50% | -823 | |
| Wicomico | 14-Feb | 50905 | 46757 | 4148 | 8.10% | -1250 | r |
| Wicomico | 14-Mar | 51411 | 47437 | 3974 | 7.70% | -985 | p |
| -8263 | less | ||||||
| p = preliminary. | SOURCE: BLS, LAUS | workforce | |||||
| r = revised | 30-Apr-14 | ||||||
I swear our local economy just keeps getting worse and worse. One can tell that the employment scene is very bad, just look at the number of panhandlers and homeless. Their everywhere, especially near the Centre of Salisbury Mall.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about the rest of our residents but I'm looking to vote for a County Executive that can deliver. This just ain't cutting it! Just what in the heck is he doing?
ReplyDeleteNo jobs? Liberalism at work folks.
ReplyDeleteI have lived here all my life 70 plus years and have never experienced such bad times and so much discontent. Is there anyway to get out of this mess?
ReplyDeleteResponding to 8:25 Posting that says 'What in the heck is he Doing?
ReplyDeleteResponse - It's obvious, they don't know what to do, clueless.
We are getting what we voted for...
ReplyDeleteLow income housing and handouts...
It's the Dumocrat way!
Politicians keep raising taxes to fund their pet projects instead of trimming fat from the budget. End state income tax and sales tax so people and businesses would want to relocate here, shop here, when taxpayers have more money to spend it will create jobs, increase property values. When property values go up that provides more revenue.
ReplyDeleteThat's at least another thousand going on the dole. Why work when it is all free if you just work for cash under the table.
ReplyDelete"I have lived here all my life 70 plus years and have never experienced such bad times and so much discontent. Is there anyway to get out of this mess"
ReplyDeleteNo. and anyone who says "yes" is a liar. A recovery, either locally or nation-wide is impossible at this point. Even it if was- the the bills are coming due for years of huge public sector pensions and social security promises.....and there will be no money. Again, anyone who tells you different is a liar.
Store food and learn to grow things in your backyard. The great die off is coming.
Pollitt Admin focused on the wrong things. Instead of Tier Maps, increasing taxes, they should have shifted to another mode and took a different coarse of action. It's to late now, he will probably lose the election this time round. To many people are hurting except those who Pollitt has helped to insulate.
ReplyDeletePollitt should lose the job. There should be term limits on the executive position. He has had 8 years to promote his vision and he has failed. We shouldn't have to vote him out but instead his turn should be over and we need someone else to take a turn.
ReplyDelete9:12, What vision? Seriously, "building bridges"?????
ReplyDeleteAsk Rick if he's ever been in his Office on a Friday ever since he took the job almost 8 years ago. Ask him how many days a week he spends in his Office and how many days he spends a week in Annapolis.
HE DOESN'T WORK. HE HAS NO VISION.
All of the above:
ReplyDeletePlease do more than comment -- get out and work for Bob Culver for County Exec. and the real Republicans running for Council -- Joe Holloway (but not Matt the RINO) and John Cannon. If you can, help fund their campaigns.
9:12 Vote Culver!
ReplyDeleteNot Unique to Wicomico - just saw on TV the weekly unemployment claims for U.S. and this is a nationwide problem.
ReplyDeleteTo 9:27 Poster - I agree. Although Wicomico is a prime example of what happens when a capitalist culture is devoured by those who strip-a-way at the very fabric that this nation was built upon. The same thing happened to the Roman Empire. You reap what you sow and we are now reaping almost two decades turning away from GOD. I knew this was going to happen sooner or latter and it has now gripped every household. No household will go through this unaffected. We are now officially a Socialist nation.
ReplyDeleteRef. 9:04 Posting, "Its To Late"
ReplyDeleteI Agree. Pollitt let it go to far and there is not enough time to turn this ship around. He won't make many friends by constantly raising taxes and that is what he has done. He should have seen it coming. I will not be voting for him this time around.
9:44-But you voted for him the last time didn't you.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many of these unemployed got what they voted for. This is so sad!
ReplyDeleteTo ALL,
ReplyDeleteWHY aren't you seeing this information in the Daily Times, WBOC or WMDT???
When we deliver FACTUAL information like this each and every month, WHY do they ignore extremely important information to the VOTERS.
Well, this is EXACTLY why Salisbury News continues to GROW leaps and bounds every single month.
Oh, they may not like us and while there are thousands of people who DENY they ever come to Salisbury News, they are LIARS.
I have to wonder just how god each and every so called REPORTER feels when they knowingly and willingly FAIL to do their most important job, telling the TRUTH.
They are nothing short of wanna be actors any more. Puppets collecting a paycheck.
Long Live Salisbury News!
And the county is raising taxes to give just Deputies a raise, and the city is proposing the same thing; increased taxes for more salary/police.
ReplyDeleteWe can turn this around with Culver, Joe Holloway and John Cannon. The Dems and Rhinos must be eliminated so we can get this county back on strong footing.
ReplyDeleteIt will not happen overnight, but we can get a good start.
Yes; unemployment is plaguing the whole country, but if you look closer at the facts, you will see the worst problems are in areas where the leadership is liberal and controlled by the dems (tax and spend is the only thing they know).
The current unemployment rate is 6.7 percent for the country. Wicomico county is 7.7 percent. There are plenty of jobs listed on Craigslist Eastern Shore. This tells me that there are people that don't want to work and choose not to because they get more in government assistance than working, they are too good to do the available jobs or they don't have the education/skills to get a job.
ReplyDeleteResponding to 11:27 - Yes there are some jobs. 99% of them are in the service sector - like fast food restaurants and hotel cleaning. They pay very well(sarcasm).
ReplyDeleteWhere are all of the jobs. I graduated with a BS Degree in Business and have been unemployed for almost 2 years. About the best salary I can garner (not even in my field) is about $12/hr. I have thought about the teaching profession, but I just can't bare to submit to another socialist culture. I have sent out several hundred resumes and the one job I thought I might get at Standard Register, well they are even closing.
ReplyDelete1127 I completely disagree with you. I've been looking for a job for some time. When applying for jobs, I been told many, many times by several Human Resources Departments' employees that they are receiving hundreds applications for one job (some close to 500 hundred). How do you compete with that or have your resume stand out? You obviously haven't had the joy of filing out applications online, some of which takes an hour at a time. It's so impersonal now. Unless you know someone at the company, you aren't even being considered. So please don't lump those of us who are diligently applying for jobs with lazy people. It's very offensive. Oh and by the way, I'm not receiving unemployment.
ReplyDeleteSimply put, there are no opportunities in Wicomico. The best has now gone. Only thing left are memories.
ReplyDelete11:41 and 11:47
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain too but you are not going to find a well paying job on the Shore unless you own a business or are a doctor/lawyer/cpa. there have not been decent jobs there for 20+ years and what was there have left. Do some research, find a nice place with employment opportunities and move is the best solution.
Joe, I believe the DT will be gone by years end. They simply don't have any reporters to cover anything other than regional or national events. And very scant at that.
ReplyDeleteIt's all SBYNEWS's fault. Just like FOX.
ReplyDeleteGot any paid openings Joe?
ReplyDelete11:27 yes craigslist may have some jobs listed but out of those listings how many are scams. And as far as part time jobs that is just window dressing for the liberals. It is sad to think that people have to work 2 or 3 part time jobs just to equal out to one fulltime job. You can let the liberals blow smoke up your ass with the employment numbers. but for the rest of us we can see through all that BS.
ReplyDeleteOut of curiosity, I just looked at craigslist and there are local jobs on there but mostly in service and labor sectors. It did look like there were lots of scam too. The fact is that the eastern shore doesn't have many career jobs anymore.
ReplyDeleteThere are only a few employers here on the shore offering good paying jobs....the hospital(s), the college(s), and the chicken industry....hospitals around here just had a bunch of layoffs, the colleges prefer to keep their students while the local chicken company can't get folks to come here after their string of layoffs.
ReplyDeleteAs long as you have a queer mayor for the city and the Pilsbury Doughboy for the county,nothing will be accomplished. Those 2 a rolling in the dough and laughing all the way to the bank. The residents in Wicomico Co.,you people need to wake up. Ah i forgot you don't like change. Just kick back and relax it'll all work out nnnnnnooootttttttttttt in your life time. Now hows that grab ya ? Maybe you can pull yourselves up by your bootstraps if you have any. Enjoy your great city and county.
ReplyDeleteThere are very few jobs here in Wicomico. A few exceptions are jobs to grass cutting, re-roofing, snow shoveling, sidewalk concrete repair, and fast food. All pay around $12 - $14/hr. Some even less. It is depressing to see such an abysmal economy.
ReplyDeleteBetter watch Craigslist as many of those jobs are seditious in nature, if you know what I mean. With Red Light District, and adjacent Church Street neighborhood, one could get
ReplyDelete'rolled' very easily if you are not on your toes.
There simply is no industry left here in Salisbury & Wicomico. Every manufacturer has left. Only thing left are burger flippers. Not to knock them as we need them to.
ReplyDeletePollitt should have never taken the MACO presidency as our citizens really needed for him to focus on Wicomico. Hobnobbing with other Maryland municipalities did very little to help our own. Charity begins at home first.
ReplyDeleteWhy do we need to give raises out to just police? Deputies make good money and it's not fair to other county employees who work just as hard but get overlooked by executive Doolittle
ReplyDeleteYou people as usual are way late and way short. The time to act was long ago......before the bypasses were built. There is no single person who can save the shore.....you are all silly to even think that's possible. The shore isn't done crashing sadly and all you folks seem to be able to do is point fingers and complain. You need to look at all the issues involved as there are many. Things will get a whole lot worse and may never improve on the shore.....and ignorance won't help.
ReplyDelete1973 height of employment in America also the height of wages.
ReplyDeleteSince then there has been a steady decline of wages and employment as a percentage of the population.
Median Wage is 50% lower than 1973 inflation adjusted minimum wage. 75% lower than 1973 Median Wage. There is no longer a middle class. The middle class is poor.
Vote all Democrats out of office. Cancel your subscription to The Daily Times.. then call their advertisers and inform them of their mistake. Call WBOC or post to their facebook email or blog...maybe they wont publish...but they will get the point..hence delmarvalife and their vein attempt to appear non bias...then call their sponsors and inform them of their mistake ..We will no longer stand for the lies and deception that our local medis media fosters. Nothing but water carryers for the failing liberal politics and fiscal mismangement of the democrats.
ReplyDeleteIf you hillbillies hate the way things are why don't you move to where the jobs are? What was that comedian's name that told the starving people to move to where food grows?
ReplyDeleteGannett stands for Government Press. You won't find anything adversarial being published by The Daily Times anymore. You see they have lost so many subscriptions that their presses have now run out of ink. Fortunately, for us we now have SBYnews and they are now the MSM for our area.
ReplyDeleteMy advise to Gannett officials, get over it - move over. You've been out hustled by SBYnews.
To 5:06 Posting - Salisbury's Red Light District
ReplyDeleteAnswer: You are so right. I am afraid to traverse after dark down any of those back streets. Even in broad daylight you are taking a gamble.
Crime is a direct result of not having an adequate number of jobs. How else are people suppose to feed themselves. The two (crime & poverty) go hand in hand with a deteriorating industrial infrastructure. Wicomico has lost virtually all of its manufacturing base. Nothing but hordes and hordes of vacant commercial space. Even on the main RT 13 drag.
ReplyDeleteI just looked at the employment chart contained in the Article and I noticed one industry that is flourishing.
ReplyDeleteThe Grave Yard industry. It looks as though Wicomico has become one big Industrial graveyard.
The only saving grace for Salisbury/Wicomico is if the Maryland Legislature legalizes marijuana. Only then might one see Church Street turn into that lush green pasture that is surrounded with EBT trading stations and a matching Red Light District to go with the new found Industrial base, DRUGS.
ReplyDelete"Median Wage is 50% lower than 1973 inflation adjusted minimum wage. 75% lower than 1973 Median Wage."
ReplyDelete7:09, where did you get this info from, did you copy it wrong. It doesn't make any sense. The minimum wage in 1973 was $1.60/hr or about $3,500/year. Adjusted for inflation that would be about $20,000 now. So in reality the current median wage is 2 1/2 times greater than the 1973 inflation adjusted minimum wage.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your interpretation of the data is incorrect. Labor force is simply comprised of employed folks and folks actively looking for jobs. A reduction or gain simply means a change in unemployed and/or employed. Ten thousand jobs could be lost or gained tomorrow and those numbers above will not change. If ten thousand people who are hard core unemployed began looking for job tomorrow then the numbers above would change. There is lies, damn lies, and there are stats.
ReplyDelete-Tony
"...but your interpretation of the data is incorrect...Ten thousand jobs could be lost or gained tomorrow and those numbers above will not change".
ReplyDeleteNot true if 10k jobs were lost then there would have been 41,411 workers in March 2014 vice 51,411. You can have more people looking for jobs then jobs available and more jobs then people working but you cannot have more people working than jobs(if there were 10k fewer jobs there would have to be 10k fewer workers unless some of the workers had 2 jobs). You are correct about labor force being workers and job seekers.
There simply are not enough jobs for our general population. I noticed just again this morning whereby Maryland is Ranked No. 2 in the nation in the number of foreclosures. It is obvious that our State has not fared very well throughout this recession. And the Maryland Legislatures mentality of simply raising taxes has only exacerbated the situation.
ReplyDeleteVery simply folks the shore isn't going to be saved.....and its not coming back..... the damage is long done. .....so you all keep the finger pointing and ill keep reading and l as laughing........
ReplyDeleteLet's just call it Ricky's Recovery
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