DASHBOARD
February 2021
The Roadmap to Recovery Dashboard tracks Utah’s path to a full and complete economic recovery from the COVID-19 recession. The Dashboard, which is updated monthly, provides essential insights, tracks timely and leading measures, and shares salient indicators since the start of the pandemic. THREE ESSENTIAL INSIGHTS:
1
Utah sees year-over job growth.
For the first time since March 2020, job change in Utah is positive. December’s year-over job growth was 0.6%. Utah and Idaho are the only states in the nation with year-over job growth in December, the rest of the nation still suffered losses.
2
Utah’s unemployment rate drops below 4.0%. Utah’s unemployment rate of 3.6% is the lowest it has been since February 2020 and is in its fourth consecutive month of decline. Utah’s unemployment rate ranks 5th nationwide.
Utah Continued Weekly Unemployment Claims March 21, 2020 – January 9, 2021 140,000
Continued Claims
120,000
3
Vaccine roll-out begins. In December 2020, COVID-19 vaccinations began in Utah. Throughout January, more than 50,000 vaccines have been administered each week. An additional graphic has been added to this dashboard to track vaccination efforts.
Utah Job Change by Industry December 2019 – December 2020 2019 Average
Total
0.6%
Construction
6.1%
Manufacturing
100,000
3.4%
Information
80,000
-5.8%
Financial Activities
60,000
Leisure & Hospitality
40,000
Other Services
20,000
Government
0
Education/Health Services Mar.
Apr.
3.8% 10.4%
May
Jun.
Jul.
Aug.
Sep.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec. Jan.
8.6%
5.3%
4.5%
4.1%
5.0%
4.1%
4.3% 3.6%
Professional/Business Services
Unemployment Rate
Trade/Transportation/Utilities
4%
Source: Utah Department of Workforce Services
2% 0.5% 0% 0.1% -2%
-8% $1,200 -10%
-13.1% 9.5% -1.6% 0.2% -13.0% 1.2% 4.6%
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
0.6%
S A -4% LT L A K E C H A M B E R -6%
Natural Resources
6.7%
ROADMAP TO RECOVERY COALITION -6.2%