For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Tuesday, March 22, 2011 USDL-11-0394
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MASS LAYOFFS -- FEBRUARY 2011
Employers took 1,421 mass layoff actions in February involving 130,818 workers,
seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits
during the month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Each mass
layoff involved at least 50 workers from a single employer. The number of mass
layoff events in February decreased by 113 from January, and the number of associated
initial claims decreased by 18,981. In February, 291 mass layoff events were reported
in the manufacturing sector, seasonally adjusted, resulting in 26,060 initial claims.
Both figures decreased over the month, with manufacturing initial claims reaching
its lowest level in program history (data begin in April 1995). (See table 1.)
The national unemployment rate was 8.9 percent in February, essentially unchanged
from the prior month and down from 9.7 percent a year earlier. In February, total
nonfarm payroll employment increased by 192,000 over the month and by 1,269,000
from a year earlier.
Industry Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
The number of mass layoff events in February was 1,024, not seasonally adjusted,
resulting in 85,585 initial claims. (See table 2.) The number of mass layoff events
was down by 159 from February 2010, and associated initial claims decreased by 17,233.
Eleven of the 19 major industry sectors in the private economy reported over-the-year
declines in initial claims, with manufacturing and construction having the largest
decreases. The six-digit industry with the largest number of initial claims in February
2011 was temporary help services. (See table A. The table includes both publicly and
privately owned entities.)
Table A. Industries with the largest number of mass layoff initial claims in
February 2011, not seasonally adjusted
February peak
Industry Initial Initial
claims Year claims
Temporary help services (1) ................... 8,334 2001 18,893
Motion picture and video production ........... 6,260 2011 6,260
School and employee bus transportation ........ 2,935 2008 4,254
Professional employer organizations (1) ....... 2,286 2009 6,452
Discount department stores .................... 2,214 2004 2,669
Farm labor contractors and crew leaders ....... 1,642 2000 12,516
Food service contractors ...................... 1,503 2009 2,580
Fruit and vegetable canning ................... 1,281 2001 2,561
Supermarkets and other grocery stores ......... 1,273 2010 2,470
Department stores, except discount ............ 1,252 2001 2,994
1 See the Technical Note for more information on these industries.
The manufacturing sector accounted for 22 percent of all mass layoff events and initial
claims filed in February. A year earlier, manufacturing made up 24 percent of events and
30 percent of initial claims. Within manufacturing, the number of claimants in February
was greatest in the food subsector. (See table 3.) Fourteen of the 21 manufacturing
subsectors experienced over-the-year decreases in initial claims, with the largest declines
in transportation equipment and in machinery.
Geographic Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Three of the 4 regions and 8 of the 9 divisions experienced over-the-year decreases in
initial claims due to mass layoffs in February. Among the census regions, the South
registered the largest over-the-year decrease in initial claims. Of the geographic
divisions, the East South Central had the largest over-the-year decline in initial claims.
(See table 5.)
California recorded the highest number of initial claims in February, followed by
Pennsylvania and Florida. Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia experienced
over-the-year decreases in initial claims, led by Kentucky and Pennsylvania.
(See table 6.)
Note
The monthly data series in this release cover mass layoffs of 50 or more workers beginning
in a given month, regardless of the duration of the layoffs. For private nonfarm
establishments, information on the length of the layoff is obtained later and issued in
a quarterly release that reports on mass layoffs lasting more than 30 days (referred to
as "extended mass layoffs"). The quarterly release provides more information on the
industry classification and location of the establishment and on the demographics of the
laid-off workers. Because monthly figures include short-term layoffs of 30 days or less,
the sum of the figures for the 3 months in a quarter will be higher than the quarterly
figure for mass layoffs of more than 30 days. (See table 4.) See the Technical Note for
more detailed definitions.
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The Mass Layoffs news release for March is scheduled to be released on Friday, April 22,
2011, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT).
Technical Note
The Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) program is a federal-state program
that uses a standardized automated approach to identifying, describing,
and tracking the effects of major job cutbacks, using data from each
state's unemployment insurance database. Each month, states report on
employers which have at least 50 initial claims filed against them during
a consecutive 5-week period. These employers then are contacted by the
state agency to determine whether these separations lasted 31 days or
longer, and, if so, other information concerning the layoff is collected.
States report on layoffs lasting more than 1 month on a quarterly basis.
A given month contains an aggregation of the weekly unemployment
insurance claims filings for the Sunday through Saturday weeks in that
month. All weeks are included for the particular month, except if the
first day of the month falls on Saturday. In this case, the week is
included in the prior month's tabulations. This means that some months
will contain 4 weeks and others, 5 weeks. The number of weeks in a given
month may be different from year to year, and the number of weeks in a
year may vary. Therefore, analysis of over-the-month and over-the-year
change in not seasonally adjusted series should take this calendar effect
into consideration.
The MLS program resumed operations in April 1995 after it had been
terminated in November 1992 due to lack of funding. Prior to April 1995,
monthly layoff statistics were not available.
Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired
individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Federal Relay
Service: (800) 877-8339.
Definitions
Employer. Employers in the MLS program include those covered by state
unemployment insurance laws. Information on employers is obtained from the
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program, which is adminis-
tered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Industry. Employers are classified according to the 2007 version of the
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). For temporary help
and professional employers organization industries, monthly MLS-related
statistics generally reflect layoffs related to underlying client companies
in other industries. An individual layoff action at a client company can
be small, but when initial claimants associated with many such layoffs are
assigned to a temporary help or professional employer organization firm, a
mass layoff event may trigger.
Initial claimant. A person who files any notice of unemployment to
initiate a request either for a determination of entitlement to and
eligibility for compensation, or for a subsequent period of unemployment
within a benefit year or period of eligibility.
Mass layoff event. Fifty or more initial claims for unemployment insur-
ance benefits filed against an employer during a 5-week period, regardless
of duration.
Seasonal adjustment
Effective with the release of data for January 2005, BLS began publish-
ing six seasonally adjusted monthly MLS series. The six series are the
numbers of mass layoff events and mass layoff initial claims for the total,
private nonfarm, and manufacturing sectors.
Seasonal adjustment is the process of estimating and removing the effect
on time series data of regularly recurring seasonal events such as changes
in the weather, holidays, and the beginning and ending of the school year.
The use of seasonal adjustment makes it easier to observe fundamental changes
in time series, particularly those associated with general economic expan-
sions and contractions.
The MLS data are seasonally adjusted using the X-12-ARIMA seasonal adjust-
ment method on a concurrent basis. Concurrent seasonal adjustment uses all
available monthly estimates, including those for the current month, in devel-
oping seasonal adjustment factors. Revisions to the most recent 5 years
of seasonally adjusted data will be made once a year with the issuance of
December data. Before the data are seasonally adjusted, prior adjustments
are made to the original data to adjust them for differences in the number
of weeks used to calculate the monthly data. Because weekly unemployment
insurance claims are aggregated to form monthly data, a particular month's
value could be calculated with 5 weeks of data in 1 year and 4 weeks in
another. The effects of these differences could seriously distort the sea-
sonal factors if they were ignored in the seasonal adjustment process. These
effects are modeled in the X-12-ARIMA program and are permanently removed from
the final seasonally adjusted series.
Table 1. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, March 2007 to
February 2011, seasonally adjusted
Total Private nonfarm Manufacturing
Date
Initial Initial Initial
Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants
2007
March ...................... 1,202 124,521 1,092 115,835 384 47,658
April ...................... 1,238 126,334 1,102 115,271 358 42,989
May ........................ 1,159 113,578 1,064 106,573 347 44,637
June ....................... 1,207 127,776 1,097 119,007 342 37,552
July ....................... 1,295 136,168 1,193 128,208 401 55,906
August ..................... 1,217 122,450 1,126 115,305 312 34,877
September .................. 1,233 121,998 1,140 115,675 430 51,731
October .................... 1,330 133,063 1,210 124,455 439 56,970
November ................... 1,397 145,339 1,269 135,651 408 56,985
December ................... 1,553 154,275 1,435 144,785 463 59,445
2008
January .................... 1,437 146,900 1,302 135,622 431 55,562
February ................... 1,604 175,128 1,441 163,475 471 59,118
March ...................... 1,500 150,502 1,388 140,424 435 56,156
April ...................... 1,292 128,901 1,162 118,016 449 58,402
May ........................ 1,582 161,944 1,444 152,230 468 62,452
June ....................... 1,631 164,508 1,488 153,014 491 68,198
July ....................... 1,581 164,497 1,443 153,720 463 62,425
August ..................... 1,791 181,107 1,653 171,705 583 77,874
September .................. 2,192 233,034 2,024 219,532 635 82,471
October .................... 2,221 229,254 2,062 215,787 697 92,408
November ................... 2,415 228,107 2,256 214,631 900 102,284
December ................... 2,443 245,661 2,264 231,138 927 114,280
2009
January .................... 2,272 238,717 2,103 224,850 756 100,927
February ................... 2,801 315,507 2,636 300,042 1,194 138,583
March ...................... 2,950 295,543 2,758 279,027 1,205 144,713
April ...................... 2,579 251,032 2,368 234,796 997 121,435
May ........................ 2,758 288,319 2,557 271,425 1,187 147,548
June ....................... 2,506 250,275 2,293 232,814 1,048 135,389
July ....................... 2,192 223,697 1,977 203,365 620 72,932
August ..................... 2,419 220,262 2,177 201,951 778 83,837
September .................. 2,305 219,924 2,095 204,596 799 91,665
October .................... 1,975 195,347 1,780 177,977 570 63,646
November ................... 1,754 154,223 1,585 141,439 464 51,891
December ................... 1,725 156,274 1,545 141,649 420 43,584
2010
January .................... 1,716 171,633 1,541 157,597 494 60,059
February ................... 1,492 149,369 1,318 135,490 351 40,564
March ...................... 1,635 146,901 1,436 131,953 347 37,273
April ...................... 1,675 159,358 1,498 143,814 371 48,646
May ........................ 1,665 155,352 1,405 133,913 314 30,967
June ....................... 1,729 153,937 1,504 134,837 326 32,646
July ....................... 1,528 138,581 1,316 121,378 296 30,752
August ..................... 1,658 163,325 1,453 141,489 409 47,668
September .................. 1,541 137,941 1,331 119,654 336 34,641
October .................... 1,649 147,204 1,445 130,264 353 37,394
November ................... 1,579 148,800 1,397 133,845 350 39,072
December ................... 1,483 137,992 1,272 122,688 319 35,977
2011
January .................... 1,534 149,799 1,344 132,730 341 39,189
February ................... 1,421 130,818 1,220 116,190 291 26,060
Table 2. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, March 2007 to
February 2011, not seasonally adjusted
Total Private nonfarm Manufacturing
Date
Initial Initial Initial
Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants
2007
March ...................... 1,082 123,974 1,015 118,431 367 49,886
April ...................... 1,219 127,444 1,115 118,040 309 35,229
May ........................ 923 85,816 856 81,153 224 26,527
June ....................... 1,599 172,810 1,318 148,669 313 36,571
July ....................... 1,599 175,419 1,450 164,939 684 101,390
August ..................... 963 93,458 908 88,345 220 23,361
September .................. 717 67,385 667 64,026 246 29,381
October .................... 1,083 108,455 929 97,716 338 50,918
November ................... 1,799 198,220 1,593 181,184 514 75,413
December ................... 2,167 224,214 2,071 216,898 699 91,754
2008
January .................... 1,647 154,503 1,520 144,191 488 54,418
February ................... 1,269 119,508 1,178 113,587 361 42,527
March ...................... 1,089 114,541 1,039 110,147 333 43,740
April ...................... 1,272 130,810 1,172 121,625 394 48,188
May ........................ 1,552 159,471 1,438 150,462 388 51,698
June ....................... 1,622 166,742 1,315 140,916 309 42,097
July ....................... 1,891 200,382 1,687 186,018 760 108,733
August ..................... 1,427 139,999 1,343 133,146 414 51,912
September .................. 1,292 129,586 1,202 122,505 361 46,391
October .................... 2,125 221,784 1,917 205,553 689 100,457
November ................... 2,574 241,589 2,389 226,657 997 107,620
December ................... 3,377 351,305 3,232 340,220 1,378 172,529
2009
January .................... 3,806 388,813 3,633 375,293 1,461 172,757
February ................... 2,262 218,438 2,173 210,755 945 103,588
March ...................... 2,191 228,387 2,107 221,397 940 114,747
April ...................... 2,547 256,930 2,385 243,321 887 100,872
May ........................ 2,738 289,628 2,572 274,047 1,005 123,683
June ....................... 2,519 256,357 2,051 216,063 674 85,726
July ....................... 3,054 336,654 2,659 296,589 1,133 154,208
August ..................... 1,428 125,024 1,334 117,193 436 41,151
September .................. 1,371 123,177 1,258 115,141 448 51,126
October .................... 1,934 193,904 1,678 172,883 566 69,655
November ................... 1,870 164,496 1,679 150,751 517 55,053
December ................... 2,310 214,648 2,166 203,655 615 64,540
2010
January .................... 2,860 278,679 2,682 265,074 962 104,846
February ................... 1,183 102,818 1,091 96,022 282 30,728
March ...................... 1,197 111,727 1,111 105,514 273 29,745
April ...................... 1,840 199,690 1,697 184,654 424 55,178
May ........................ 1,354 123,333 1,170 109,203 216 19,334
June ....................... 1,861 171,190 1,355 125,872 212 21,083
July ....................... 2,124 206,254 1,732 172,248 532 64,200
August ..................... 976 92,435 897 83,021 230 23,088
September .................. 920 77,654 806 67,987 187 19,403
October .................... 1,642 148,638 1,373 127,865 351 40,861
November ................... 1,676 158,048 1,477 142,591 389 41,383
December ................... 1,931 184,130 1,763 172,881 465 52,816
2011
January .................... 2,558 246,463 2,372 229,765 693 75,006
February ................... 1,024 85,585 919 78,718 222 18,471
Table 3. Industry distribution: Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance
Initial claimants for
Mass layoff events unemployment insurance
Industry
February December January February February December January February
2010 2010 2011 2011 2010 2010 2011 2011
Seasonally adjusted
Total ..................................... 1,492 1,483 1,534 1,421 149,369 137,992 149,799 130,818
Total, private nonfarm ........................ 1,318 1,272 1,344 1,220 135,490 122,688 132,730 116,190
Manufacturing ............................... 351 319 341 291 40,564 35,977 39,189 26,060
Not seasonally adjusted
Total (1) ................................. 1,183 1,931 2,558 1,024 102,818 184,130 246,463 85,585
Total, private .................................. 1,128 1,830 2,438 976 98,241 176,405 234,708 82,230
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting .. 37 67 66 57 2,219 3,524 4,943 3,512
Total, private nonfarm ........................ 1,091 1,763 2,372 919 96,022 172,881 229,765 78,718
Mining ...................................... 5 29 15 4 761 2,439 1,188 322
Utilities ................................... - (2) 5 (2) - (2) 390 (2)
Construction ................................ 166 379 325 104 12,200 29,458 23,906 7,003
Manufacturing ............................... 282 465 693 222 30,728 52,816 75,006 18,471
Food .................................... 45 52 94 58 4,031 6,590 9,313 5,115
Beverage and tobacco products ........... 6 8 5 5 407 856 752 287
Textile mills ........................... 5 21 31 5 431 2,239 4,455 468
Textile product mills ................... 5 8 9 4 557 981 793 270
Apparel ................................. 4 18 20 5 265 1,294 1,776 693
Leather and allied products ............. (2) 3 (2) (2) (2) 850 (2) (2)
Wood products ........................... 27 39 43 22 1,850 3,623 4,930 1,872
Paper ................................... 10 14 14 12 721 1,055 1,049 750
Printing and related support activities . 12 13 12 6 960 934 983 679
Petroleum and coal products ............. (2) 10 (2) (2) (2) 892 (2) (2)
Chemicals ............................... 9 8 18 7 872 561 1,612 759
Plastics and rubber products ............ 10 25 51 5 1,014 2,392 4,569 262
Nonmetallic mineral products ............ 12 48 56 16 794 4,212 4,239 1,141
Primary metals .......................... 9 21 23 8 981 1,919 3,046 794
Fabricated metal products ............... 12 29 51 8 681 2,380 4,174 446
Machinery ............................... 20 18 46 11 2,466 2,724 5,446 897
Computer and electronic products ........ 18 13 14 13 1,538 1,214 1,020 847
Electrical equipment and appliances ..... 12 12 15 4 1,386 2,372 1,572 1,078
Transportation equipment ................ 45 78 128 19 10,104 12,534 19,478 1,275
Furniture and related products .......... 16 20 44 9 1,346 2,521 4,263 533
Miscellaneous manufacturing ............. (2) 7 14 (2) (2) 673 1,073 (2)
Wholesale trade ............................. 27 23 32 24 1,754 1,706 2,839 2,187
Retail trade ................................ 128 105 241 114 10,802 9,985 27,038 9,346
Transportation and warehousing .............. 51 114 212 49 5,372 13,341 22,440 5,630
Information ................................. 40 25 53 58 3,753 2,818 7,915 8,959
Finance and insurance ....................... 32 29 31 22 2,671 2,151 2,758 1,407
Real estate and rental and leasing .......... 9 13 17 7 622 1,408 1,150 369
Professional and technical services ......... 33 44 52 43 2,292 3,549 4,019 3,729
Management of companies and enterprises ..... 6 (2) 6 (2) 1,990 (2) 439 (2)
Administrative and waste services ........... 191 225 381 166 13,594 17,203 34,996 13,894
Educational services ........................ 4 9 19 8 242 958 2,672 474
Health care and social assistance ........... 31 46 56 28 2,118 3,904 3,880 1,685
Arts, entertainment, and recreation ......... 16 24 55 11 1,419 1,843 5,494 629
Accommodation and food services ............. 61 208 158 50 5,044 27,239 12,107 4,088
Other services, except public administration 8 15 21 4 552 1,153 1,528 161
Unclassified ................................ 1 1 - - 108 92 - -
Government ...................................... 55 101 120 48 4,577 7,725 11,755 3,355
Federal ..................................... 8 10 23 5 631 1,215 2,922 384
State ....................................... 12 22 32 17 947 1,724 3,272 1,029
Local ....................................... 35 69 65 26 2,999 4,786 5,561 1,942
1 Data were reported by all states and the District of Columbia.
2 Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.
NOTE: Dash represents zero.
Table 4. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, January 2009 to February 2011, not seasonally adjusted
Private nonfarm
Total mass layoffs Extended mass layoffs
Date Mass layoffs lasting more than 30 days Realization rates (1)
Initial Initial Initial Initial
Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants
2009
January .................... 3,806 388,813 3,633 375,293
February ................... 2,262 218,438 2,173 210,755
March ...................... 2,191 228,387 2,107 221,397
First Quarter .............. 8,259 835,638 7,913 807,445 3,979 835,551 50.3 103.5
April ...................... 2,547 256,930 2,385 243,321
May ........................ 2,738 289,628 2,572 274,047
June ....................... 2,519 256,357 2,051 216,063
Second Quarter ............. 7,804 802,915 7,008 733,431 3,395 731,049 48.4 99.7
July ....................... 3,054 336,654 2,659 296,589
August ..................... 1,428 125,024 1,334 117,193
September .................. 1,371 123,177 1,258 115,141
Third Quarter .............. 5,853 584,855 5,251 528,923 2,034 406,823 38.7 76.9
October .................... 1,934 193,904 1,678 172,883
November ................... 1,870 164,496 1,679 150,751
December ................... 2,310 214,648 2,166 203,655
Fourth Quarter ............. 6,114 573,048 5,523 527,289 2,416 468,577 43.7 88.9
2010
January .................... 2,860 278,679 2,682 265,074
February ................... 1,183 102,818 1,091 96,022
March ...................... 1,197 111,727 1,111 105,514
First Quarter .............. 5,240 493,224 4,884 466,610 1,870 368,459 38.3 79.0
April ...................... 1,840 199,690 1,697 184,654
May ........................ 1,354 123,333 1,170 109,203
June ....................... 1,861 171,190 1,355 125,872
Second Quarter ............. 5,055 494,213 4,222 419,729 2,008 395,224 47.6 94.2
July ....................... 2,124 206,254 1,732 172,248
August ..................... 976 92,435 897 83,021
September .................. 920 77,654 806 67,987
Third Quarter .............. 4,020 376,343 3,435 323,256 1,370 256,636 39.9 79.4
October .................... 1,642 148,638 1,373 127,865
November ................... 1,676 158,048 1,477 142,591
December ................... 1,931 184,130 1,763 172,881
Fourth Quarter ............. 5,249 490,816 4,613 443,337 (2)(p)1,910 (2)(p)268,431 (p)41.4 (p)60.5
2011
January .................... 2,558 246,463 2,372 229,765
February ................... 1,024 85,585 919 78,718
1 The event realization rate is the percentage of all private nonfarm mass layoff events lasting more than 30 days. The
initial claimant realization rate is the percentage of all private nonfarm mass layoff initial claimants associated with
layoffs lasting more than 30 days.
2 These quarterly numbers are provisional and will be revised as more data on these layoffs become available.
Experience suggests that the number of extended mass layoff events is generally revised upwards by less than 10 percent and
the number of initial claimants associated with such events increases by 25-40 percent.
p = preliminary.
Table 5. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance by census region and division, not
seasonally adjusted
Initial claimants for
Mass layoff events unemployment insurance
Census region and division
February December January February February December January February
2010 2010 2011 2011 2010 2010 2011 2011
United States (1) ... 1,183 1,931 2,558 1,024 102,818 184,130 246,463 85,585
Northeast ................... 215 356 591 173 21,705 35,601 58,802 16,047
New England ............. 39 50 81 32 4,682 5,278 7,047 4,259
Middle Atlantic ......... 176 306 510 141 17,023 30,323 51,755 11,788
South ....................... 319 493 687 260 29,681 51,554 66,552 19,998
South Atlantic .......... 178 287 431 166 13,052 27,744 40,880 11,371
East South Central ...... 69 110 156 44 9,917 12,784 16,508 4,343
West South Central ...... 72 96 100 50 6,712 11,026 9,164 4,284
Midwest ..................... 221 565 613 180 21,128 58,560 63,468 15,075
East North Central ...... 169 394 464 130 16,776 42,375 45,790 11,550
West North Central ...... 52 171 149 50 4,352 16,185 17,678 3,525
West ........................ 428 517 667 411 30,304 38,415 57,641 34,465
Mountain ................ 58 90 66 35 4,276 7,274 6,046 2,440
Pacific ................. 370 427 601 376 26,028 31,141 51,595 32,025
1 See footnote 1, table 3.
NOTE: The States (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the census divisions are: New England:
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont; Middle Atlantic: New Jersey, New York,
and Pennsylvania; South Atlantic: Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia; East South Central: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee; West South
Central: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas; East North Central: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and
Wisconsin; West North Central: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota; Mountain:
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming; and Pacific: Alaska, California, Hawaii,
Oregon, and Washington.
Table 6. State distribution: Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, not seasonally
adjusted
Initial claimants for
Mass layoff events unemployment insurance
State
February December January February February December January February
2010 2010 2011 2011 2010 2010 2011 2011
Total (1) ............ 1,183 1,931 2,558 1,024 102,818 184,130 246,463 85,585
Alabama ................. 17 34 70 12 1,758 3,758 7,730 1,583
Alaska .................. 3 9 4 (2) 267 915 392 (2)
Arizona ................. 8 9 13 12 700 940 1,075 838
Arkansas ................ (2) 6 6 3 (2) 563 768 283
California .............. 335 365 530 349 23,191 25,602 44,274 29,769
Colorado ................ 10 14 11 4 706 964 1,126 383
Connecticut ............. 10 7 11 4 847 576 1,048 331
Delaware ................ 5 6 5 3 378 429 411 239
District of Columbia .... (2) (2) 4 (2) (2) (2) 452 (2)
Florida ................. 87 92 128 85 5,523 7,554 9,464 5,071
Georgia ................. 34 42 84 28 2,708 4,306 8,952 2,221
Hawaii .................. (2) - 6 3 (2) - 388 232
Idaho ................... 11 15 8 4 709 1,006 698 225
Illinois ................ 40 110 86 35 4,311 13,672 7,516 3,508
Indiana ................. 22 49 43 15 1,907 5,314 6,487 1,471
Iowa .................... 13 39 39 9 1,122 3,897 4,007 870
Kansas .................. - 23 23 5 - 2,923 5,440 308
Kentucky ................ 32 38 47 13 6,844 5,003 5,472 1,682
Louisiana ............... 12 21 29 6 1,442 1,741 2,309 518
Maine ................... (2) 6 11 (2) (2) 431 900 (2)
Maryland ................ 7 9 25 4 724 611 1,888 306
Massachusetts ........... 8 19 34 6 646 2,372 3,225 534
Michigan ................ 32 67 127 17 3,694 8,985 10,398 1,091
Minnesota ............... 13 34 19 10 1,456 2,932 1,988 675
Mississippi ............. 5 19 13 8 282 2,128 1,163 446
Missouri ................ 24 54 55 17 1,667 4,763 4,713 1,038
Montana ................. 4 8 6 (2) 258 470 560 (2)
Nebraska ................ (2) 14 9 9 (2) 1,157 1,086 634
Nevada .................. 16 26 12 5 1,331 2,449 1,299 394
New Hampshire ........... 7 3 9 4 1,095 326 722 537
New Jersey .............. 16 49 109 19 1,408 6,036 9,853 2,243
New Mexico .............. 6 8 7 3 391 640 467 164
New York ................ 52 115 207 45 6,833 12,383 24,950 4,161
North Carolina (3) ...... 5 80 100 27 451 8,876 9,865 1,984
North Dakota ............ (2) 5 3 - (2) 375 390 -
Ohio .................... 35 87 93 30 3,790 7,826 9,241 2,473
Oklahoma ................ 3 6 11 9 306 1,410 1,048 1,015
Oregon .................. 19 25 36 9 1,571 2,234 4,390 896
Pennsylvania ............ 108 142 194 77 8,782 11,904 16,952 5,384
Rhode Island ............ 7 10 8 10 1,545 1,264 555 2,125
South Carolina .......... 11 26 41 5 886 2,648 5,124 340
South Dakota ............ - (2) (2) - - (2) (2) -
Tennessee ............... 15 19 26 11 1,033 1,895 2,143 632
Texas ................... 56 63 54 32 4,894 7,312 5,039 2,468
Utah .................... (2) 10 7 6 (2) 805 720 370
Vermont ................. 6 5 8 6 483 309 597 558
Virginia ................ 22 30 42 10 1,704 3,177 4,497 899
Washington .............. 11 28 25 13 769 2,390 2,151 955
West Virginia ........... 5 - (2) 3 509 - (2) 216
Wisconsin ............... 40 81 115 33 3,074 6,578 12,148 3,007
Wyoming ................. (2) - (2) - (2) - (2) -
Puerto Rico ............. 21 10 25 16 2,459 940 2,854 1,808
1 See footnote 1, table 3.
2 Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.
3 Data starting in November 2010 may not be comparable to prior data due to a change in MLS unemployment insurance
input procedures.
NOTE: Dash represents zero.
United States Department of Labor
