Hawaii’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.0 percent in December after falling for the previous four months in a row, the state Department of Labor & Industrial Relations said Friday.

The statewide labor force, which includes those who are employed and others who are unemployed but actively seeking work, rose to 671,600 in December from 669,850 in November. There were 644,750 employed and 26,850 unemployed.

The U.S. unemployment rate, announced earlier this month, was down two-tenths of a point in December to 5.6 percent.

In a separate measure of state employment, there were 200 nonfarm jobs added in December over the previous month with government showing the biggest increase with 800 jobs. That was mostly due to variation in seasonal hiring at the Department of Education and the University of Hawaii system.