Unemployment Rates

		May-20	Apr-20	May-19
New Hampshire
	SA	14.5%	17.1%	2.5%
	NSA	14.5%	17.2%	2.4%

United States
	SA	13.3%	14.7%	3.6%
	NSA	13.0%	14.4%	3.4%

SA = Seasonally Adjusted
NSA = Not Seasonally Adjusted

Unemployment Claims

May 2020
Initial Claims	34,031
Continued Weeks Claimed	404,164
Average payment for a week of unemployment	$253.57

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Building New Hampshire’s Future: The Construction Sector in New Hampshire
This publication examines the current state of employment in the Construction sector in New Hampshire. Construction employment has been growing faster than overall employment in New Hampshire since 2013, and has been one of the fastest growing sectors of the New Hampshire workforce over that time. Full Publication

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A new application featuring workforce and economic data has been released. The new application provides easy access to a variety of labor market, economic, and demographic data for New Hampshire.

Recent Updates

Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) (06/25/20)
Unemployment Rates by State in Rank Order (06/19/20)
Unemployment News Release (06/16/20)
New Hampshire Current Employment Statistics (CES) (06/16/20)
Job Ads Summary for April/May 2020 (06/15/20)
Consumer Price Index (CPI) (06/11/20)
New Hampshire Long-term Projections by Industry and Occupation(06/10/20)
Registered Job Seekers by EEO category and Population Statistics tables for Affirmative Action (06/08/20)
New Hampshire Economic Conditions (06/05/20)
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), 2019 Q4 (05/29/20)
Business Employment Dynamics (BED) (05/08/20)
Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization (04/24/20)
Licensed, Certified and Registered Occupations Publication(03/31/20)
New Hampshire Short-term Projections by Indusry and Occupation(02/27/20)
New Hampshire Unemployment Insurance Historical Data 1977-2018(01/06/20)

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