OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state’s unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 percent last month, the first time it’s been below 8 percent in nearly four years.

The state’s Employment Security Department said Wednesday that the fall from October’s 8.2 percent rate was the largest one-month decline in more than three decades. The last time the rate was below 8 percent was January 2009, when it was also at 7.8 percent.