New state jobless claims fell for the seventh week running, according to numbers released Thursday by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.

Regular payroll workers such as non-contract or self-employed filed 8,927 new claims for the week ending April 10. That’s a 4% drop from the previous week’s level of 9,305, according to CDLE.

Like last week, it marks the new lowest weekly total of new regular claims filed in 2021.

New claims filed by gig, contract or self-employed workers came in at 2,132 for the week ending April 10, down just slightly from the 2,180 filed the previous week.

Those workers are covered by the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program.

Colorado new jobless claims continue to dwindle

The total number of new claims for payroll and PUA-eligible workers was 11,059, the second week of total claims decline. Last week’s total was 12,015.

Colorado’s unemployment rate stood at 6.6%, unchanged from January.

CDLE reports 1,175,514 total claims have been filed since March 2020, and that $8.77 billion in claims have been paid.