Pasadena, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/10/2011 -- Unemployment rate in the Raleigh-Durham area, commonly known as the Research Triangle is still losing jobs.

The Research Triangle Park metro area had an unemployment rate of 7.9 percent in November. The jobless rate in Raleigh-Cary was 8.1 percent, while the rate for Durham-Chapel Hill was 7.1 percent.

Unemployment rose in 99 of the North Carolina’s 100 counties as well as in all 14 of its metro areas. North Carolina’s total unemployment rate was also 9.9 percent in November, up from 9.1 percent the previous month. The number of people getting unemployment benefits was 441, 023.

CEO A. Harrison Barnes of RaleighCrossing says that Raleigh still has jobs in the hi-tech area. “The Research Triangle is still hiring in significant numbers. And the jobs there are high-skilled and high paying jobs with benefits. So this is not just some lowly-paid temp work. There are opportunities in information technology and engineering.” RaleighCrossing has been able to find over 18,000 jobs in the Raleigh area so far. The biggest job categories for Raleigh are: information technology (1,362), engineering (884), recruiting (908), managerial (1,364), pharmaceutical (324), and science (393).