At 3.8 percent, the unemployment rate in the Czech Republic was 1.1 percent higher on September 30 than it was a year ago and the 277,015 people that were out of work was the highest figure for the month since 2017. But the total number of people looking for jobs actually fell by 2,063 compared to August. Employers were advertising 316,658 job openings as of the end of September, a drop of 24,165 from August and 28,696 fewer than a year ago. The figures mean that there are 0.8 job openings for every person without a job. The county of Karvina has the highest unemployment, with 8.1 percent of working age people there out of work. Prague-East and Jindrich Hradec both have just 1.9 percent unemployment, putting them 0.1 percent worse than Rychov county, whose unemployment rate is the lowest in the country.
