Increased employment drove the U.S. economy forward and resulted in a stronger office market. The current U.S. unemployment rate of 7.6% resulted from an added average of approximately 170,000 jobs per month each month throughout 2013. The job market for the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) continued to shine with the dramatic decrease in the unemployment rate by 1.9 percentage points (pps) during 2013 to the current rate of just 5.2%.
Source : Cushman & Wakefield