Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases national and state-level data on U.S. employment, which provide useful information about the state of the labor market and progress toward building a better America. To highlight key trends in the monthly data, the Joint Economic Committee compiles state-by-state fact sheets for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The most recent state-level data, which cover the month of June, were released on July 22, 2022. The latest national data were released on July 8, 2022.
Fact sheets will be updated next on August 22, 2022, following the BLS release of new state employment data on August 19.
See last month's data here.
- Since President Biden took office, nearly 9 million jobs have been created nationwide, an average of 527,000 created each month. After adding nearly 400,000 jobs in June, the private sector is more than fully recovered, employing more workers than pre-pandemic.
- In the month of June, the latest for which national data are available, 372,000 jobs were created, and the unemployment rate remained at 3.6%—a pandemic-era low and now just 0.1 percentage points above the pre-pandemic rate.
- The unemployment rate declined for adult men (3.3%), adult women (3.3%) and Black workers (5.8%) and rose slightly for white workers (3.3%) and Asian workers (3.0%). The unemployment rate for Hispanic workers (4.3%) remained unchanged.
