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U.S. unemployment rate: seasonally adjusted May 2019

Monthly unemployment rate in the United States from May 2018 to May 2019 (seasonally-adjusted)

by Erin Duffin, last edited Jun 18, 2019

U.S. unemployment rate: seasonally adjusted May 2019

This statistic displays the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in the United States on a monthly basis. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method of removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends. National unemployment was at 3.6 percent in May 2019.
U.S. monthly unemployment rate

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics - the principle fact-finding agency for the U.S. Federal Government in labor economics and statistics - unemployment declined from 2010 to 2018. A trend of decreasing unemployment followed after a high in 2010 resulting from the 2008 financial crisis. Unemployment fell from 9.6 percent in 2010 to 3.9 percent in 2018.

Additional statistics from the BLS paint an interesting picture of unemployment in the United States. In April 2019, the state with the highest (seasonally adjusted) unemployment rate was Alaska with a 6.5 percent unemployment rate, followed by the District of Columbia and New Mexico. Unemployment was the lowest in Vermont at 2.2 percent. Workers in the agricultural and related industries suffered the highest unemployment rate of any industry at 5.4 percent as of May 2019 (not seasonally adjusted).

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by Erin Duffin, last edited Jun 18, 2019

This statistic displays the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in the United States on a monthly basis. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method of removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends. National unemployment was at 3.6 percent in May 2019.
U.S. monthly unemployment rate

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics - the principle fact-finding agency for the U.S. Federal Government in labor economics and statistics - unemployment declined from 2010 to 2018. A trend of decreasing unemployment followed after a high in 2010 resulting from the 2008 financial crisis. Unemployment fell from 9.6 percent in 2010 to 3.9 percent in 2018.

Additional statistics from the BLS paint an interesting picture of unemployment in the United States. In April 2019, the state with the highest (seasonally adjusted) unemployment rate was Alaska with a 6.5 percent unemployment rate, followed by the District of Columbia and New Mexico. Unemployment was the lowest in Vermont at 2.2 percent. Workers in the agricultural and related industries suffered the highest unemployment rate of any industry at 5.4 percent as of May 2019 (not seasonally adjusted).

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