Although the area has been experiencing an increase in unemployment, many Las Vegas jobs have been added in recent months.

According to an article by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the number of jobs in July came in at 932,800, a 3 percent increase from last year.

The air transportation and warehousing industry, which employs 5,800 workers, saw a 26.1 percent increase in employees, the biggest gain of any sector.

The employment services industry, which provides work for 14,700 individuals, lost 10.4 percent of its workers, the biggest drop. Construction industry jobs totaled 94,600, down 8.9 percent from July of last year. The hotel-casino and gaming industry, which employs 172,500 workers, saw a 2 percent decline from last year.

In July 2008, Las Vegas’s unemployment rate reached 6.8 percent, higher than the national unemployment rate of 5.7 percent. The city’s unemployment rate was at 6.5 percent in June and at 5.1 percent in July of last year. The number of unemployed people grew from 27,000 in 2007 to 94,900.

Nevada had a July unemployment rate of 6.8 percent in July, up from 6.4 percent in June and 4.9 percent last year. The Reno area suffered a July unemployment rate of 6.5 percent, up from 6.4 percent in June. Carson City’s unemployment rate stayed at 6.6 percent and the Elko area’s unemployment rate increased to 4.1 percent from 4 percent in June.

“It’s important that state government do everything it can to encourage the creation of new jobs and attract new businesses to Nevada,” Governor Jim Gibbons said in the article. “This includes resisting pressures to increase taxes on business to meet the state’s revenue shortfall, which would put even greater strains on already struggling companies and put more Nevadans out of work.”