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Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands]
Category May
2024		 Mar.
2025		 Apr.
2025		 May
2025		 Change from:
Apr.
2025-
May
2025

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population

 268,248 273,023 273,197 273,385 188

Civilian labor force

 167,799 170,591 171,135 170,510 -625

Participation rate

 62.6 62.5 62.6 62.4 -0.2

Employed

 161,164 163,508 163,969 163,273 -696

Employment-population ratio

 60.1 59.9 60.0 59.7 -0.3

Unemployed

 6,635 7,083 7,166 7,237 71

Unemployment rate

 4.0 4.2 4.2 4.2 0.0

Not in labor force

 100,449 102,431 102,062 102,875 813

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over

 4.0 4.2 4.2 4.2 0.0

Adult men (20 years and over)

 3.8 3.8 4.0 3.9 -0.1

Adult women (20 years and over)

 3.4 3.7 3.7 3.9 0.2

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)

 12.4 13.7 13.0 13.4 0.4

White

 3.5 3.7 3.8 3.8 0.0

Black or African American

 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.0 -0.3

Asian

 3.1 3.5 3.0 3.6 0.6

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.1 -0.1

Total, 25 years and over

 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.4 0.0

Less than a high school diploma

 5.9 5.8 6.1 5.5 -0.6

High school graduates, no college

 4.3 4.1 4.0 4.5 0.5

Some college or associate degree

 3.1 3.5 3.7 3.3 -0.4

Bachelor's degree and higher

 2.1 2.6 2.5 2.6 0.1

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs

 3,213 3,313 3,455 3,457 2

Job leavers

 720 870 855 704 -151

Reentrants

 2,060 2,176 2,235 2,288 53

New entrants

 646 739 701 725 24

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks

 2,309 2,362 2,187 2,451 264

5 to 14 weeks

 1,922 2,146 2,269 2,208 -61

15 to 26 weeks

 964 1,006 987 1,039 52

27 weeks and over

 1,348 1,495 1,675 1,457 -218

Employed people at work part time

Part time for economic reasons

 4,415 4,780 4,690 4,624 -66

Slack work or business conditions

 3,085 3,156 3,148 3,007 -141

Could only find part-time work

 1,064 1,255 1,260 1,385 125

Part time for noneconomic reasons

 22,631 22,625 22,723 22,588 -135

People not in the labor force

Marginally attached to the labor force

 1,523 1,687 1,617 1,556 -61

Discouraged workers

 459 509 414 381 -33

NOTE: People whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
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Last Modified Date: June 06, 2025