News Release Connect with DOL at https://blog.dol.gov TRANSMISSION OF MATERIALS IN THIS RELEASE IS EMBARGOED UNTIL 8:30 A.M. (Eastern) Thursday, May 28, 2020 COVID-19 Impact The COVID-19 virus continues to impact the number of initial claims and insured unemployment. This report includes information on claimants filing Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation claims. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending May 23, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 2,123,000, a decrease of 323,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 8,000 from 2,438,000 to 2,446,000. The 4-week moving average was 2,608,000, a decrease of 436,000 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised up by 2,000 from 3,042,000 to 3,044,000. The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 14.5 percent for the week ending May 16, a decrease of 2.6 percentage points from the previous week's revised rate. The previous week's rate was revised down by 0.1 from 17.2 to 17.1 percent. The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending May 16 was 21,052,000, a decrease of 3,860,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised down by 161,000 from 25,073,000 to 24,912,000. The 4-week moving average was 22,722,250, an increase of 760,250 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised down by 40,250 from 22,002,250 to 21,962,000. 1 UNADJUSTED DATA The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 1,914,958 in the week ending May 23, a decrease of 266,682 (or -12.2 percent) from the previous week. The seasonal factors had expected an increase of 24,458 (or 1.1 percent) from the previous week. There were 198,194 initial claims in the comparable week in 2019. In addition, for the week ending May 23, 32 states reported 1,192,616 initial claims for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 13.1 percent during the week ending May 16, a decrease of 2.5 percentage points from the prior week. The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 19,051,706, a decrease of 3,742,432 (or -16.4 percent) from the preceding week. The seasonal factors had expected a decrease of 249,116 (or -1.1 percent) from the previous week. A year earlier the rate was 1.1 percent and the volume was 1,509,265. The total number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week ending May 9 was 30,957,122, an increase of 3,675,484 from the previous week. There were 1,569,212 persons claiming benefits in all programs in the comparable week in 2019. Extended Benefits were available in Alaska, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia during the week ending May 9. Initial claims for UI benefits filed by former Federal civilian employees totaled 1,824 in the week ending May 16, an increase of 101 from the prior week. There were 1,213 initial claims filed by newly discharged veterans, an increase of 137 from the preceding week. 2 There were 16,612 former Federal civilian employees claiming UI benefits for the week ending May 9, an increase of 1,207 from the previous week. Newly discharged veterans claiming benefits totaled 14,289, an increase of 3,359 from the prior week. For the week ending May 9, 33 states reported 7,793,066 individuals claiming Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits and 22 states reported 222,300 individuals claiming Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation benefits. The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending May 9 were in Washington (31.2), Nevada (26.7), Florida (25.0), Hawaii (23.4), Michigan (23.1), California (20.6), New York (19.9), Rhode Island (18.8), Vermont (18.2), Connecticut (18.0), and Georgia (18.0). The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending May 16 were in California (+31,764), Washington (+29,288), New York (+24,543), Florida (+2,322), and Michigan (+1,549), while the largest decreases were in Georgia (-65,041), New Jersey (-27,324), Kentucky (-22,051), Louisiana (-11,580), and Pennsylvania (-11,172). 3 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE DATA FOR REGULAR STATE PROGRAMS WEEK ENDING Initial Claims (SA) Initial Claims (NSA) 4-Wk Moving Average (SA) WEEK ENDING Insured Unemployment (SA) Insured Unemployment (NSA) 4-Wk Moving Average (SA) Insured Unemployment Rate (SA)2 Insured Unemployment Rate (NSA)2 May 23 2,123,000 1,914,958 2,608,000 May 16 2,446,000 2,181,640 3,044,000 Change -323,000 -266,682 -436,000 May 9 2,687,000 2,356,626 3,543,000 Prior Year1 218,000 198,194 218,250 May 16 21,052,000 19,051,706 22,722,250 14.5% 13.1% May 9 24,912,000 22,794,138 21,962,000 17.1% 15.6% Change -3,860,000 -3,742,432 +760,250 -2.6 -2.5 May 2 22,548,000 20,879,704 19,688,750 15.5% 14.3% Prior Year1 1,675,000 1,509,265 1,680,000 1.2% 1.1% INITIAL CLAIMS FILED IN FEDERAL PROGRAMS (UNADJUSTED) WEEK ENDING Pandemic Unemployment Assistance WEEK ENDING Federal Employees (UCFE) Newly Discharged Veterans (UCX) May 23 1,192,616 May 16 1,246,871 Change -54,255 May 9 850,184 May 16 1,824 1,213 May 9 1,723 1,076 Change +101 +137 Prior Year1 547 460 Change +1,901,923 +1,207 +3,359 +1,672,738 +59,573 +505 +20 +36,159 +3,675,484 Prior Year1 1,540,485 7,474 5,675 NA NA 0 6,214 9,364 1,569,212 PERSONS CLAIMING UI BENEFITS IN ALL PROGRAMS (UNADJUSTED) WEEK ENDING Regular State Federal Employees Newly Discharged Veterans Pandemic Unemployment Assistance3 Pandemic Emergency UC4 Extended Benefits5 State Additional Benefits6 STC / Workshare 7 TOTAL8 May 9 22,725,217 16,612 14,289 7,793,066 222,300 931 5,823 178,884 30,957,122 May 2 20,823,294 15,405 10,930 6,120,328 162,727 426 5,803 142,725 27,281,638 FOOTNOTES SA - Seasonally Adjusted Data, NSA - Not Seasonally Adjusted Data 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Prior year is comparable to most recent data. Most recent week used covered employment of 145,671,710 as denominator. Information on the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program can be found in UIPL 16-20: PUA Program information Information on the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program can be found in Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 17-20: PEUC Program information Information on the EB program can be found here: EB Program information Some states maintain additional benefit programs for those claimants who exhaust regular benefits, and when applicable, extended benefits. Information on states that participate, and the extent of benefits paid, can be found starting on page 4-4 of this link: Extensions and Special Programs PDF Information on STC/Worksharing can be found starting on page 4-8 of the following link: Extensions and Special Programs PDF Totals include PUA Unemployment for the appropriate corresponding week. 4 Advance State Claims - Not Seasonally Adjusted STATE Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California* Colorado Connecticut Delaware* District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii** Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas* Kentucky Louisiana Maine** Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania* Puerto Rico** Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia* Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming* US Total Initial Claims Filed During Week Ended May 23 Advance Prior Wk Change 27,289 25,150 2,139 8,537 7,741 796 26,878 31,957 -5,079 10,464 11,427 -963 212,343 244,431 -32,088 15,731 18,054 -2,323 16,584 25,960 -9,376 4,783 5,554 -771 5,123 5,196 -73 173,731 225,404 -51,673 164,350 177,731 -13,381 8,683 10,964 -2,281 4,472 5,800 -1,328 58,359 72,780 -14,421 26,278 29,436 -3,158 14,586 12,056 2,530 11,614 11,238 376 53,738 47,321 6,417 23,853 28,545 -4,692 4,116 4,726 -610 33,240 35,111 -1,871 37,740 38,684 -944 57,714 56,715 999 28,615 28,893 -278 24,348 24,242 106 25,917 28,244 -2,327 3,617 3,660 -43 5,875 5,839 36 18,102 17,837 265 6,973 8,794 -1821 33,290 42,365 -9,075 7,347 7,356 -9 192,193 223,962 -31,769 43,221 46,913 -3,692 3,277 2,619 658 42,363 46,862 -4,499 32,127 33,440 -1,313 27,514 23,539 3,975 69,408 62,516 6,892 10,923 10,923 0 2,920 3,883 -963 24,950 29,899 -4,949 3,410 3,891 -481 26,041 27,990 -1,949 128,105 134,065 -5,960 5,455 6,228 -773 1,480 2,199 -719 42 66 -24 58,591 44,699 13,892 53,280 140,119 -86,839 4,762 5,026 -264 28,308 31,287 -2,979 2,298 2,303 -5 1,914,958 2,181,640 -266,682 Insured Unemployment For Week Ended May 16 Advance Prior Wk Change 185,242 203,677 -18,435 47,670 50,049 -2,379 212,223 230,566 -18,343 116,116 122,408 -6,292 2,122,719 3,565,153 -1,442,434 266,470 246,507 19,963 275,504 297,088 -21,584 59,030 51,010 8,020 69,091 68,844 247 508,632 2,151,108 -1,642,476 728,728 790,178 -61,450 187,023 145,543 41,480 55,400 60,121 -4,721 764,194 733,542 30,652 260,939 270,385 -9,446 180,679 184,641 -3,962 111,583 108,565 3,018 245,098 246,865 -1,767 320,536 326,504 -5,968 99,968 92,207 7,761 249,849 253,212 -3,363 589,448 589,545 -97 958,927 994,188 -35,261 433,254 427,690 5,564 198,376 189,886 8,490 253,148 261,840 -8,692 48,919 53,786 -4,867 60,296 62,962 -2,666 339,899 369,041 -29,142 108,935 114,450 -5,515 586,650 601,770 -15,120 108,286 103,949 4,337 1,824,663 1,873,935 -49,272 558,978 605,709 -46,731 35,613 32,399 3,214 617,480 704,784 -87,304 135,504 135,229 275 487,159 290,151 197,008 913,268 1,008,886 -95,618 192,050 152,823 39,227 88,562 89,247 -685 240,276 256,676 -16,400 22,588 25,186 -2,598 322,094 332,745 -10,651 1,301,355 1,300,576 779 82,005 86,298 -4,293 50,095 55,103 -5,008 4,542 3,572 970 378,641 403,557 -24,916 630,477 1,045,456 -414,979 102,112 98,794 3,318 292,699 308,397 -15,698 18,713 17,335 1,378 19,051,706 22,794,138 -3,742,432 Note: Advance claims are not directly comparable to claims reported in prior weeks. Advance claims are reported by the state liable for paying the unemployment compensation, whereas previous weeks reported claims reflect claimants by state of residence. In addition, claims reported as "workshare equivalent" in the previous week are added to the advance claims as a proxy for the current week's "workshare equivalent" activity. * Denotes state estimate ** Denotes DOL estimate 5 Seasonally Adjusted US Weekly UI Claims (in thousands) Week Ending May 18, 2019 May 25, 2019 June 1, 2019 June 8, 2019 June 15, 2019 June 22, 2019 June 29, 2019 July 6, 2019 July 13, 2019 July 20, 2019 July 27, 2019 August 3, 2019 August 10, 2019 August 17, 2019 August 24, 2019 August 31, 2019 September 7, 2019 September 14, 2019 September 21, 2019 September 28, 2019 October 5, 2019 October 12, 2019 October 19, 2019 October 26, 2019 November 2, 2019 November 9, 2019 November 16, 2019 November 23, 2019 November 30, 2019 December 7, 2019 December 14, 2019 December 21, 2019 December 28, 2019 January 4, 2020 January 11, 2020 January 18, 2020 January 25, 2020 February 1, 2020 February 8, 2020 February 15, 2020 February 22, 2020 February 29, 2020 March 7, 2020 March 14, 2020 March 21, 2020 March 28, 2020 April 4, 2020 April 11, 2020 April 18, 2020 April 25, 2020 May 2, 2020 May 9, 2020 May 16, 2020 May 23, 2020 Initial Claims 213 218 220 220 219 224 222 211 217 211 216 214 218 215 215 219 208 211 215 218 212 218 213 217 212 222 223 211 206 237 229 218 220 212 207 220 212 201 204 215 220 217 211 282 3,307 6,867 6,615 5,237 4,442 3,867 3,176 2,687 2,446 2,123 Change from Prior Week -4 5 2 0 -1 5 -2 -11 6 -6 5 -2 4 -3 0 4 -11 3 4 3 -6 6 -5 4 -5 10 1 -12 -5 31 -8 -11 2 -8 -5 13 -8 -11 3 11 5 -3 -6 71 3,025 3,560 -252 -1,378 -795 -575 -691 -489 -241 -323 Change from Insured Prior Unemployment Week 1,675 -8 1,695 20 1,700 5 1,677 -23 1,692 15 1,699 7 1,717 18 1,694 -23 1,682 -12 1,699 17 1,692 -7 1,719 27 1,687 -32 1,699 12 1,683 -16 1,683 0 1,675 -8 1,672 -3 1,667 -5 1,698 31 1,689 -9 1,691 2 1,700 9 1,695 -5 1,702 7 1,697 -5 1,665 -32 1,697 32 1,700 3 1,725 25 1,716 -9 1,728 12 1,775 47 1,759 -16 1,735 -24 1,704 -31 1,753 49 1,678 -75 1,729 51 1,693 -36 1,720 27 1,699 -21 1,702 3 1,784 82 3,059 1,275 7,446 4,387 11,914 4,468 15,819 3,905 18,011 2,192 22,377 4,366 22,548 171 24,912 2,364 21,052 -3,860 4-Week Average 221.25 218.25 217.00 217.75 219.25 220.75 221.25 219.00 218.50 215.25 213.75 214.50 214.75 215.75 215.50 216.75 214.25 213.25 213.25 213.00 214.00 215.75 215.25 215.00 215.00 216.00 218.50 217.00 215.50 219.25 220.75 222.50 226.00 219.75 214.25 214.75 212.75 210.00 209.25 208.00 210.00 214.00 215.75 232.50 1,004.25 2,666.75 4,267.75 5,506.50 5,790.25 5,040.25 4,180.50 3,543.00 3,044.00 2,608.00 6 4-Week Average 1,680.00 1,682.75 1,688.25 1,686.75 1,691.00 1,692.00 1,696.25 1,700.50 1,698.00 1,698.00 1,691.75 1,698.00 1,699.25 1,699.25 1,697.00 1,688.00 1,685.00 1,678.25 1,674.25 1,678.00 1,681.50 1,686.25 1,694.50 1,693.75 1,697.00 1,698.50 1,689.75 1,690.25 1,689.75 1,696.75 1,709.50 1,717.25 1,736.00 1,744.50 1,749.25 1,743.25 1,737.75 1,717.50 1,716.00 1,713.25 1,705.00 1,710.25 1,703.50 1,726.25 2,061.00 3,497.75 6,050.75 9,559.50 13,297.50 17,030.25 19,688.75 21,962.00 22,722.25 IUR 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 2.1 5.1 8.2 10.9 12.4 15.4 15.5 17.1 14.5 Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Claims - Not Seasonally Adjusted STATE Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California* Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming* US Total PUA Initial Claims Filed During Week Ended May 23 Advance Prior Wk Change 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 94,732 112,791 -18,059 6,635 7,633 -998 4,491 7,450 -2,959 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 925 5,193 -4,268 15,450 74,515 -59,065 26,484 0 26,484 2,946 4,552 -1,606 0 0 0 0 0 0 25,188 3,396 21,792 0 7,043 -7,043 14,297 15,448 -1,151 147,594 115,952 31,642 196,235 165,230 31,005 883 3,036 -2,153 0 0 0 6,717 7,787 -1,070 4,812 2,466 2,346 1,511 1,700 -189 37,567 27,399 10,168 0 0 0 89,255 103,220 -13,965 3,139 3,253 -114 250,130 177,684 72,446 43,056 42,002 1,054 1,141 638 503 44,158 134,468 -90,310 0 3,016 -3,016 0 0 0 80,053 60,750 19,303 0 1,022 -1,022 3,995 3,768 227 17,562 19,706 -2,144 875 901 -26 4,043 3,390 653 40,635 43,997 -3,362 1,511 2,600 -1,089 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13,906 -13,906 21,288 61,471 -40,183 0 0 0 4,458 8,591 -4,133 850 897 -897 1,192,616 1,246,871 -54,255 PUA Continued Claims For Week Ended May 9 May 9 May 2 Change 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,148,937 1,754,859 -605,922 96,779 92,584 4,195 65,560 80,570 -15,010 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4,561 2,370 2,191 159,646 0 159,646 67,577 60,354 7,223 16,186 15,219 967 0 0 0 0 0 0 118,817 142,979 -24,162 35,713 41,030 -5,317 170,722 129,069 41,653 1,184,792 657,621 527,171 1,642,002 1,221,309 420,693 78,807 60,871 17,936 0 0 0 89,665 109,019 -19,354 31,028 24,161 6,867 20,206 16,470 3,736 0 0 0 0 0 0 302,590 262,403 40,187 49,504 46,117 3,387 226,631 90,280 136,351 59,343 68,684 -9,341 8,142 14,302 -6,160 592,141 0 592,141 0 0 0 0 0 0 721,664 671,703 49,961 3,948 0 3,948 35,932 41,348 -5,416 98,189 0 98,189 2,892 1,416 1,476 79,363 100,005 -20,642 166,633 127,634 38,999 10,169 0 10,169 0 0 0 0 0 0 193,227 0 193,227 310,163 284,555 25,608 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,537 3,396 -1,859 7,793,066 6,120,328 1,672,738 Note: Information on the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program can be found in UIPL 16-20: PUA Program information * Denotes state estimate - DOL does not estimate PUA claims data when data is not supplied by the state. Zeroes indicate unavailable data. 7 Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation Claims - Not Seasonally Adjusted STATE Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming US Total May 9 May 2 0 0 0 6,633 183 0 0 1,442 1,314 0 0 0 1,239 29,423 14,094 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 12,794 12,935 0 9,347 0 0 518 0 0 2,083 50,117 0 3,061 8,356 317 0 1,500 0 1,592 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 59,766 5,550 0 0 222,300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 782 0 4,528 0 0 0 17 12 3,473 0 26,986 11,934 0 10,884 0 0 0 0 0 1,185 48,190 0 0 5,102 0 0 1,365 0 503 0 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 47,725 0 0 0 162,727 PEUC Claims Filed For Weeks Ended: Change 0 0 0 6,633 183 0 0 1,442 1,314 0 0 0 457 29,423 9,566 0 0 0 -17 9 -3,473 0 -14,192 1,001 0 -1,537 0 0 518 0 0 898 1,927 0 3,061 3,254 317 0 135 0 1,089 0 15 -41 0 0 0 0 0 12,041 5,550 0 0 59,573 April 25 April 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 193 0 0 0 0 0 11 15 2,361 0 8,457 10,619 0 213 0 0 0 0 0 1,030 43,414 0 0 0 0 0 1,251 0 0 0 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 11,899 15 0 0 79,538 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 10 0 0 0 8,363 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33,362 0 0 0 0 0 1,076 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9,471 16 0 0 52,305 Note: Information on the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program can be found in Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 17-20: PEUC Program information - DOL does not estimate PEUC claims data when data is not supplied by the state. Zeroes indicate unavailable data. 8 INITIAL CLAIMS FILED DURING WEEK ENDED MAY 16 CHANGE FROM STATE NAME Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Totals LAST YEAR STATE WEEK AGO UCFE 1 UCX 1 25,150 -1,516 22,669 18 24 7,741 -66 6,922 10 5 31,957 387 27,677 13 2 11,427 -1,725 9,730 3 0 244,431 31,764 207,003 329 193 18,054 -4,678 16,437 15 37 25,960 -4,086 23,378 73 5 5,554 357 5,127 6 11 5,196 -586 4,696 60 1 225,404 2,322 219,050 41 17 177,731 -65,041 173,445 51 59 10,964 -1,365 9,722 8 14 5,800 5 5,076 4 3 72,780 109 65,398 8 13 29,436 -232 27,427 26 22 12,056 -3,764 10,097 21 10 11,238 -996 9,836 2 0 47,321 -22,051 45,049 1 0 28,545 -11,580 26,249 51 24 4,726 -853 4,198 2 0 35,111 -10,374 32,399 60 25 38,684 -6,231 33,939 70 33 56,715 1,549 50,849 50 15 28,893 -8,776 26,180 19 10 24,242 624 22,338 11 5 28,244 -2,901 24,940 2 2 3,660 -102 3,036 9 6 5,839 -523 5,181 7 4 17,837 -3,798 15,856 3 2 8,794 -1,222 8,376 9 5 42,365 -27,324 35,311 14 4 7,356 -668 6,572 3 1 223,962 24,543 212,088 69 67 46,913 -10,441 43,527 64 81 2,619 -134 2,319 5 2 46,862 -5,393 36,921 18 46 33,440 -5,639 31,710 30 19 23,539 -10,397 20,281 61 17 62,516 -11,172 50,587 262 65 10,923 -4,144 9,810 6 6 3,883 -2,362 3,170 14 2 29,899 -3,292 27,898 31 32 3,891 -1,378 3,727 0 0 27,990 -387 25,444 38 23 134,065 -7,488 120,258 157 255 6,228 -848 5,330 7 4 2,199 -714 1,671 1 0 66 -4 35 1 0 44,699 -7,440 42,055 14 17 140,119 29,288 134,606 15 12 5,026 -1,019 4,236 2 3 31,287 -7,423 27,777 25 10 2,303 -994 2,096 5 0 2,181,640 -170,179 1,989,709 1,824 1,213 INSURED UNEMPLOYMENT FOR WEEK ENDED MAY 9 CHANGE FROM ALL PROGRAMS EXCLUDING LAST YEAR RAILROAD STATE (%) 2 WEEK AGO UCFE 1 UCX 1 RETIREMENT 203,677 10.6 -13,179 189,176 138 68 203,883 50,049 16.2 -922 43,188 161 28 50,238 230,566 8.0 1,760 205,069 196 147 230,909 122,408 10.2 -114 112,785 147 71 122,626 3,565,153 20.6 714,949 3,220,418 2,812 2,223 3,570,188 246,507 9.2 -15,444 227,974 233 270 247,010 297,088 18.0 -22,441 268,503 149 2,120 299,357 51,010 11.4 805 47,137 15 19 51,044 68,844 11.9 3,546 62,528 772 18 69,634 2,151,108 25.0 1,115,901 2,117,151 698 933 2,152,739 790,178 18.0 -22,735 766,148 479 358 791,015 145,543 23.4 34,633 138,853 242 141 145,926 60,121 8.2 -5,357 55,381 65 38 60,224 733,542 12.4 -22,370 642,299 428 218 734,188 270,385 8.9 -15,075 257,107 74 110 270,569 184,641 12.1 -5,002 170,541 139 58 184,838 108,565 8.0 -9,412 100,482 83 63 108,711 246,865 13.0 -6,385 231,187 172 182 247,219 326,504 17.3 1,368 313,115 95 47 326,646 92,207 15.3 4,927 87,275 51 19 92,277 253,212 9.9 -1,261 231,320 218 196 253,626 589,545 16.5 13,976 539,221 277 193 590,015 994,188 23.1 20,910 951,586 245 156 994,589 427,690 14.9 -1,497 398,339 189 143 428,022 189,886 17.1 -18,384 182,815 200 45 190,131 261,840 9.4 -4,390 245,022 135 67 262,042 53,786 11.8 -5,119 48,734 224 37 54,047 62,962 6.5 -5,127 59,758 19 17 62,998 369,041 26.7 44,597 351,521 181 122 369,344 114,450 17.6 -2,318 111,272 52 10 114,512 601,770 14.9 -113,663 525,193 453 372 602,595 103,949 12.9 2,817 95,657 122 70 104,141 1,873,935 19.9 27,781 1,760,893 675 603 1,875,213 605,709 13.8 -14,100 586,992 429 702 606,840 32,399 7.8 -3,522 30,260 30 19 32,448 704,784 13.2 -41,102 661,872 200 437 705,421 135,229 8.6 -42,893 121,721 65 80 135,374 290,151 15.2 -19,392 265,425 648 148 290,947 1,008,886 17.4 -40,578 917,954 2,282 575 1,011,743 152,823 17.9 -11,211 139,677 238 74 153,135 89,247 18.8 -4,836 82,453 80 53 89,380 256,676 12.3 -12,025 243,640 56 113 256,845 25,186 6.0 1,798 24,072 99 14 25,299 332,745 10.1 -10,467 317,498 145 122 333,012 1,300,576 10.6 118,967 1,190,071 985 1,391 1,302,952 86,298 5.9 -5,293 79,392 97 46 86,441 55,103 18.2 -1,937 51,924 12 2 55,117 3,572 10.1 760 3,204 10 0 3,582 403,557 10.8 10,884 385,380 442 432 404,431 1,045,456 31.2 305,661 1,000,363 426 764 1,046,646 98,794 14.8 -8,611 90,128 68 56 98,918 308,397 10.8 -4,851 285,448 131 78 308,606 17,335 6.4 -593 15,544 30 21 17,386 22,794,138 15.6 1,914,434 21,250,666 16,612 14,289 22,825,039 Figures appearing in columns showing over-the-week changes reflect all revisions in data for prior week submitted by state agencies. 1. The Unemployment Compensation program for Federal Employees (UCFE) and the Unemployment Compensation for Ex-servicemembers (UCX) exclude claims filed jointly under other programs to avoid duplication. 2. Rate is not seasonally adjusted. The source of U.S. total covered employment is BLS. 9 UNADJUSTED INITIAL CLAIMS FOR WEEK ENDED MAY 16, 2020 STATES WITH AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000 State CA WA NY Change +31,764 +29,288 +24,543 FL +2,322 MI +1,549 State Supplied Comment Layoffs in the service industry. Layoffs in the insurance, educational services, and public administration industries. Layoffs in the transportation and warehousing, educational services, and information industries. Layoffs in the agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting, construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, and service industries. No comment. STATES WITH A DECREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000 State GA Change -65,041 NJ -27,324 KY LA PA -22,051 -11,580 -11,172 NC -10,441 OR MD MN TX VA WI MA OK OH CO PR CT NV IA SC MO RI AR AL -10,397 -10,374 -8,776 -7,488 -7,440 -7,423 -6,231 -5,639 -5,393 -4,678 -4,144 -4,086 -3,798 -3,764 -3,292 -2,901 -2,362 -1,725 -1,516 SD HI NH WV -1,378 -1,365 -1,222 -1,019 State Supplied Comment Fewer layoffs in the accommodation and food services, health care and social assistance, retail trade, manufacturing, educational services, and administrative, support, waste management, and remediation services industries. Fewer layoffs in the health care and social assistance, transportation and warehousing, construction, accommodation and food services, and manufacturing industries. No comment. No comment. Fewer layoffs in the educational services, administrative, support, waste management, and remediation services, health care and social assistance, and construction industries. Fewer layoffs in the accommodation and food services, administrative, support, waste management, and remediation services, and transportation and warehousing industries. No comment. No comment. No comment. No comment. No comment. Fewer layoffs in the manufacturing and health care and social assistance industries. No comment. No comment. No comment. No comment. No comment. No comment. No comment. No comment. No comment. No comment. No comment. No comment. Fewer layoffs in the accommodation and food services, health care and social assistance, and manufacturing industries. No comment. No comment. No comment. No comment. 10 TECHNICAL NOTES This news release presents the weekly unemployment insurance (UI) claims reported by each state's unemployment insurance program offices. These claims may be used for monitoring workload volume, assessing state program operations and for assessing labor market conditions. States initially report claims directly taken by the state liable for the benefit payments, regardless of where the claimant who filed the claim resided. These are the basis for the advance initial claims and continued claims reported each week. These data come from ETA 538, Advance Weekly Initial and Continued Claims Report. The following week initial claims and continued claims are revised based on a second reporting by states that reflect the claimants by state of residence. These data come from the ETA 539, Weekly Claims and Extended Benefits Trigger Data Report. A. Initial Claims An initial claim is a claim filed by an unemployed individual after a separation from an employer. The claimant requests a determination of basic eligibility for the UI program. When an initial claim is filed with a state, certain programmatic activities take place and these result in activity counts including the count of initial claims. The count of U.S. initial claims for unemployment insurance is a leading economic indicator because it is an indication of emerging labor market conditions in the country. However, these are weekly administrative data which are difficult to seasonally adjust, making the series subject to some volatility. B. Continued Weeks Claimed A person who has already filed an initial claim and who has experienced a week of unemployment then files a continued claim to claim benefits for that week of unemployment. Continued claims are also referred to as insured unemployment. The count of U.S. continued weeks claimed is also a good indicator of labor market conditions. Continued claims reflect the current number of insured unemployed workers filing for UI benefits in the nation. While continued claims are not a leading indicator (they roughly coincide with economic cycles at their peaks and lag at cycle troughs), they provide confirming evidence of the direction of the U.S. economy. C. Seasonal Adjustments and Annual Revisions Over the course of a year, the weekly changes in the levels of initial claims and continued claims undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These fluctuations may result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, the opening and closing of schools, or other similar events. Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern each year, their influence on the level of a series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal variation. These adjustments make trend and cycle developments easier to spot. At the beginning of each calendar year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) with a set of seasonal factors to apply to the unadjusted data during that year. Concurrent with the implementation and release of the new seasonal factors, ETA incorporates revisions to the UI claims historical series caused by updates to the unadjusted data. Weekly Claims Archives Weekly Claims Data U.S. Department of Labor news materials are accessible at http://www.dol.gov. The Department's Reasonable Accommodation Resource Center converts Departmental information and documents into alternative formats, which include Braille and large print. For alternative format requests, please contact the Department at (202) 693-7828 (voice) or (800) 877-8339 (federal relay). U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration Washington, D.C. 20210 Release Number: USDL 20-1122-NAT Program Contacts: Kevin Stapleton: (202) 321-2810 Media Contact: (202) 693-4676 11