Recent grads report competitive Nevada job market, despite strong indicators
Despite a strong June jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Stephen Miller, professor and research director at UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research, said the U.S. job market is beginning to soften.
“It’s softening slowly,” Miller said. “It’s slowing down, but it’s still very positive.”
With the nationwide unemployment rate slowly increasing, the average duration of unemployment is doing the same. It increased from 20.7 weeks in June 2024 to 23 weeks in June 2025. Though comparable data is not readily available for Nevada, it suggests an increased difficulty in finding suitable work.