North Carolina’s unemployment rate ticked up again, from 5.7 percent in May to 5.8 percent in June.

That’s according to numbers released Tuesday by the NC Department of Commerce. North Carolina’s unemployment rate bottomed out at 5.3 percent in January and February but has gone up slightly every month since.

Read the full report from the DOC’s Labor and Economic Analysis Division.

The national unemployment rate, meanwhile, has continued to drop – down to 5.3 percent in June, two tenths of a point down from May. North Carolina’s unemployment rate dropped below the national average last summer and stayed there until March, but it’s gone back up since then.

North Carolina’s unemployment rate is still four tenths of a point below where it was a year ago.

County-by-county numbers for June will be released on July 29.