Nonfarm payroll employment increased modestly in June, with 80,000 new jobsreported Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; however, itwasn't enough to lower the unemployment rate, which remained unchanged at 8.2%.

In June, the number of long-term unemployed, those jobless for 27 weeks ormore, was essentially unchanged at 5.4 million. These individualsaccounted for 41.9% of the unemployed.

The number of persons employed part time for economicreasons, sometimes referred to as involuntarypart-time workers because their hours had been cut back or becausethey were unable to find a full-time job was essentially unchangedat 8.2 million.

During the month of June, 2.5 million persons were marginallyattached to the labor force, down significantly from 2.7 million ayear earlier. These individuals were not in the labor force, wantedand were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime inthe prior 12 months, but they were not counted as unemployedbecause they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding thesurvey. Included in the marginally attached statistics were 821,000discouraged workers in June, a decline of 161,000 from a yearearlier. Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking forwork because they believe no jobs are available for them.

Professional and business services added more than half of Junejobs, 47,000, with temporary help services accounting for 25,000 ofthe increase.

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarmpayrolls edged up by 0.1 hour to 34.5 hours in June. Themanufacturing workweek edged up by 0.1 hour to 40.7 hours, andfactory nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls edgedup by 0.1 hour to 33.8 hours.

In June, average hourly earnings for all employees on privatenonfarm payrolls increased by 6 cents to $23.50. Over the year,average hourly earnings have increased by 2.0%. In June, averagehourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisoryemployees increased by 5 cents to $19.74.

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for April wasrevised downward, from +77,000 to +68,000, but the change for Maywas revised positively in almost the same amount, from +69,000 to+77,000.