Colo. Jobless Rate Dips To 6.9 Percent In October

Adjusted for seasonality, though, the number of jobs added in the last month throughout the state was about 1,000, Hall said. Most of those jobs were in professional and business services, which could be legal services and engineering and accounting firms, and leisure and hospitality.

Hall said although consumer confidence is continuing to increase, it may still be several months before the labor market recovers from the recession.

"I think there's still a lot of uncertainty about what kind of footing we are in the economy when it comes to employment," Hall said.

A drop in oil prices and investment in the oil and gas industry has affected the unemployment rate in counties in the state's Western Slope, as well as in northern and southern Colorado. Counties along the Front Range have been affected by declines in the construction sector. The Eastern Plains, where the majority of counties have agriculturally based economies, have not been as affected by unemployment as the rest of the state.

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