Unemployment rate dips slightly with 14,300 jobs added in L.A. County

By Mark Kellam

Dec. 18, 2015 1:18 PM PT

Unemployment rates declined slightly last month in Glendale and Burbank, with trade, transportation and utilities adding 14,300 jobs in Los Angeles County, according to the latest labor report.

The jobless rate in Glendale dropped by 0.2%, to 5.5%, while it ticked down 0.1% to 4.7% in Burbank, according to statistics released Friday by the California Employment Development Department.

The state’s unemployment rate was 5.7%, down from 5.8% in October and a significant improvement from 7.2% in November 2014.

In the La Crescenta-Montrose area and La Cañada Flintridge, the jobless rates edged down 0.1% in both communities, coming in at 3.2% and 3%, respectively.

Mark Kellam, mark.kellam@latimes.com

Twitter: @LAMarkKellam

Mark Kellam

Mark Kellam was city editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. He joined Times Community News in July 2011 as the business-politics reporter and was promoted to city editor in January 2013. Previously, he was an editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and managing editor at Champion Newspapers in Chino, Calif. Prior to that, he was an editor at Amos Suburban Newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, for several years. Kellam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.