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Unemployment in the US by State (June 2023) The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication.
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
The minimum benefit is $50 per week, and the maximum benefit is updated each year. The "base period" for determining benefits is defined as 12 months divided into four consecutive quarters, excluding the quarter immediately prior - i.e., the lookback period is ~17 months pre-disability up to ~5 months pre-disability.
Currently California employers pay a federal unemployment insurance tax of 1.2% on the first $7,000 of wages per employee, but that will rise incrementally every year so long as California is in ...
For nearly two years, Texas has led the country in job growth, most recently adding more than 400,000 new jobs between August 2022 and 2023, according to a Department of Labor Statistics report ...
In June, 2022, EDD did offer an estimate of ineligible payments — a sum of $26 billion. But, the audit found, “errors in its process have resulted in this estimate being unreliable.”
Public employment service, unemployment insurance and payroll tax agency: Headquarters: 722 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, California: Employees: approximately 10,000 [1] Annual budget: US$ 882 million (2018–2019) Parent agency: California Labor and Workforce Development Agency: Website: www.edd.ca.gov
May 2022 Unemployment Rate: 5.1%. Unemployed: 48,385. Methodology: For this piece, GOBankingRates looked at the May 2022 Bureau of Labor Statistics "Civilian labor force and unemployment by state ...