California’s job growth continued in May as employers added 15,200 people to their payrolls, according to a state data release.
The state’s unemployment rate ticked down for the fifth month in a row, hitting 5.2%, still higher than the national rate of 4.7%, the Employment Development Department said Friday.
The gain was slight compared with April, when the state added 70,000 jobs, revised upward from an initial estimate of 59,600.