United States Employment Rate

Employment Rate in the United States increased to 60.60 percent in October from 60.40 percent in September of 2018. Employment Rate in the United States averaged 59.33 percent from 1950 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 64.70 percent in April of 2000 and a record low of 55 percent in July of 1954.

Employment Rate in the United States is expected to be 60.60 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Employment Rate in the United States to stand at 60.80 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United States Employment Rate is projected to trend around 61.00 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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United States Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	3.70	3.70	10.80	2.50	percent	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	250.00	118.00	1115.00	-834.00	Thousand	[+]
Nonfarm Payrolls Private	246.00	121.00	1089.00	-821.00	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	4.00	-3.00	427.00	-260.00	Thousand	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	32.00	18.00	572.00	-519.00	Thousand	[+]
Initial Jobless Claims	224.00	221.00	695.00	162.00	Thousand	[+]
Continuing Jobless Claims	1668.00	1670.00	6635.00	988.00	Thousand	[+]
ADP Employment Change	227.00	218.00	384.00	-836.00	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	156562.00	155962.00	156562.00	57635.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	6075.00	5964.00	15352.00	1596.00	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	0.20	0.30	0.60	-0.20	percent	[+]
Average Weekly Hours	34.50	34.50	34.60	33.70	Hours	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	62.90	62.70	67.30	58.10	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	0.84	0.85	2.80	0.74	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	8.30	8.50	19.50	7.80	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	109.66	109.33	109.66	17.00	Index Points	[+]
Productivity	105.67	105.10	105.67	26.03	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	7070.00	7291.00	7313.00	2132.00	Thousand	[+]
Job Offers	7009.00	7293.00	7293.00	2196.00	Thousand	[+]
Challenger Job Cuts	75644.00	55285.00	248475.00	15100.00	Persons	[+]
Wages	22.89	22.82	22.89	2.50	USD/Hour	[+]
Wage Growth	4.60	4.79	13.78	-5.88	percent	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	21.68	21.62	21.68	1.27	USD/Hour	[+]
Minimum Wages	7.25	7.25	7.25	0.25	USD/Hour	[+]
Employment Cost Index	0.80	0.60	1.60	0.20	percent	[+]
Population	325.72	323.41	325.72	76.09	Million	[+]
Retirement Age Women	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Retirement Age Men	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Employment Rate	60.60	60.40	64.70	55.00	percent	[+]
Full Time Employment	129212.00	128894.00	129212.00	64640.00	Thousand	[+]
Part Time Employment	27297.00	27055.00	28134.00	10086.00	Thousand	[+]
Living Wage Family	2380.00	2270.00	2380.00	2160.00	USD/Month	[+]
Living Wage Individual	1660.00	1560.00	1660.00	1450.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages High Skilled	4520.00	4330.00	4950.00	4330.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages Low Skilled	1960.00	1760.00	2340.00	1760.00	USD/Month	[+]

In United States, the employment rate measures the number of people who have a job as a percentage of the working age population. This page provides - United States Employment Rate- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. United States Employment Rate - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on November of 2018.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	60.60	60.40	64.70	55.00	1950 - 2018	percent	Monthly	SA

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Country	Last		Previous	Highest	Lowest
Mexico	96.40	Sep/18	96.53	97.23	93.58	%	Monthly
Switzerland	79.90	Jun/18	79.4	81.3	76.9	%	Quarterly
Netherlands	77.00	Jun/18	76.2	77.6	63.5	%	Quarterly
United Kingdom	75.50	Aug/18	75.5	75.7	65.6	%	Monthly
Germany	75.40	Jun/18	75.4	76	63.6	%	Quarterly
France	65.90	Sep/18	65.8	65.9	63.5	%	Quarterly
Spain	64.01	Sep/18	63.53	67.18	54.91	%	Quarterly
Australia	62.20	Sep/18	62.2	62.9	54	%	Monthly
Canada	61.50	Oct/18	61.5	63.7	56	%	Monthly
South Korea	61.20	Oct/18	61.2	61.6	56.1	%	Monthly
United States	60.60	Oct/18	60.4	64.7	55	%	Monthly
Japan	60.50	Sep/18	60.2	63.5	55.9	%	Monthly
Russia	60.30	Sep/18	60.5	66.6	59.3	%	Monthly
Italy	58.80	Sep/18	58.9	58.9	55.3	%	Monthly
Brazil	54.40	Sep/18	54.1	57.3	53.1	%	Monthly
Turkey	47.60	Aug/18	47.4	47.9	38.9	%	Monthly
South Africa	43.10	Sep/18	43.1	46.17	41	%	Quarterly
Argentina	41.90	Jun/18	42.4	43.4	36.3	%	Quarterly