Texas Workforce Commission

The local job market — Tarrant, Johnson, Wise and Parker counties — picked up 8,000 jobs in April, leading to a slight drop in the nonseasonally adjusted unemployment rate, to 8.2 percent from 8.3 percent, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday.

As a whole, Texas gained 32,500 nonfarm jobs in April, though the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose slightly, to 8.3 percent from 8.2 as more Texans continued to enter the work force. But the state remained below the 9.9 percent national average.

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