The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at a record-high 5 percent for the second consecutive month in August, sources said Thursday.

Although the rate remained the same, the actual number of jobless appears to have increased by 200,000 to 3.3 million, the sources said. The government will officially release its job statistics for August today.

The unemployment rate has steadily increased since April, when it reached 4.8 percent. The rate was 4.9 percent in May and June.