Employment Rate in the United States decreased to 59.70 percent in May from 60 percent in April of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Employment Rate- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

After the declaration of the state of alarm on March 14, 2020 due to COVID-19, Spain experienced a phenomenon hitherto unknown in the country's recent history: a quarantine. For approximately eight weeks and following the government measures established, the population was confined to their homes trying to avoid the contagion of the dreaded SARS-CoV-2. But staying home did not necessarily mean stop working. On the contrary, according to a study carried out between April 6th and 8th, 2020, 40 percent of those surveyed had the option of being able to telework, compared to 19 percent who had to continue going to their workplace.

In the observed period, average employment in Poland maintained an upward trend with minor fluctuations. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, employment in the national economy and businesses declined. In 2024, there were over 9.4 million employees in the national economy and around 6.5 million in the enterprise sector.

Average number of weekly hours dedicated to the care of persons with disabilities, by sex and employment situation. Average and standard deviation. Population aged 16 years old and over caring for persons with disabilities. National.

Average number of weekly hours dedicated to the care of persons over 74 years of age, by sex and employment situation. Average and standard deviation. Population aged 16 years and over caring for persons over 74 years of age. National.

This graph illustrates the employment situation of graduates of the full-time undergraduate programs at the City University (CityU) of Hong Kong, as of December 2015, by situation. At CityU, 122 full-time undergraduates were underemployed after their graduation in 2015, meaning they were available for or had sought work, but were nevertheless involuntarily working less than 35 hours a week.

This dataset contains incidences and gender composition of part-time employment with standardised (15-24, 25-54, 55-64, 65+, total) and detailed age groups. Data are further broken down by professional status - employees, total employment. Part-time employment is based on national definitions.

The definition of part-time work varies considerably across OECD countries Essentially three main approaches can be distinguished: i) a classification based on the worker's perception of his/her employment situation; ii) a cut-off (generally 30 or 35 hours per week) based on usual working hours, with persons usually working fewer hours being considered part-timers; iii) a comparable cut-off based on actual hours worked during the reference week. A criterion based on actual hours will generally yield a part-time rate higher than one based on usual hours, particularly if there are temporary reductions in working time as a result of holidays, illness, short-timing, etc. On the other hand, it is not entirely clear whether a classification based on the worker's perception will necessarily yield estimates of part-time work that are higher or lower than one based on a fixed cut-off. In one country (France) which changed from 1981 to 1982 from a definition based on an actual hours cut-off (30 hours) to one based on the respondent's perception, the latter criterion appeared to produce slightly higher estimates.

In order to facilitate analysis and comparisons over time, historical data for OECD members have been provided over as long a period as possible, often even before a country became a member of the Organisation. Information on the membership dates of all OECD countries can be found at OECD Ratification Dates.

For detailed information on labour force surveys for all countries please see LFS_NOTES_SOURCES.

Judgement on one´s own job situation and the situation in the job market in the course of time.

This is a three-wave panel.

Topics: First wave: The first wave of this investigation is at the same time the survey described under ZA Study No. 1084.

Topics: professional career and satisfaction with occupational development; work satisfaction; job security; career orientation; attitude to occupational planning; correspondence of training and future demands of occupation; characterization of job; the route to work and means of transport used; characterization of company; judgement on the development of the company and the area of business; assumed difficulties in searching for work; accepting setback in a change of job; readiness for mobility; participation in further education measures within and outside work; readiness for further education; weekly working hours and overtime; assessment of self-confidence in selected situations (scale); judgement on the reasonableness of an offer of a position as worker or with lower income; memberships; residential status; type of city; size of municipality class; administrative district.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; school education; vocational training; household income; size of household; composition of household; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household.

Second wave: as a so-called panel maintenance a short questionnaire was sent to the respondents.

In this mail survey (November 1980) the following questions were posed: current employment status; moving frequency; change of residence and distance moved; cause of moving.

Third wave: The third wave is identical to the fourth wave of the unemployed survey as described in ZA Study No. 1362: assessment of the economic situation; times of employment or unemployment from 1978 to 1981; assessment of occupational consequences of personal unemployment; reason for last unemployment; number of jobs offered by employment office; one´s own initiative in the search for work; aid taken advantage of for occupational reintegration; satisfaction with employment office and case worker; description of current employment situation; interest in regaining employment; part time or full time position; assessment whether employment can be resumed in the next five years; establishing a specific occupation or a specific profession; income concepts; occupational mobility; acceptable or reasonable problems in regaining employment; current registration with employment office as unemployed; reasons for not finding a suitable position (scale); sources of income to support cost of living; assessment of condition of health; reduction in earning capacity; illnesses and complaints in the last three months; psychological self-characterization of self-confidence and work orientation (scales); moving frequency.

The following questions were also posed to those who in the meantime had found work: success of mediation by employment office; temporary or permanent employment; detailed characterization of current activity and relationship with occupation learned; hours worked each week and overtime; length of route to work; assessment of the security of one´s own job.

Those who had not yet found work characterized their last job according to the same criteria.

In 2023, it was estimated that over 161 million Americans were in some form of employment, while 3.64 percent of the total workforce was unemployed. This was the lowest unemployment rate since the 1950s, although these figures are expected to rise in 2023 and beyond. 1980s-2010s Since the 1980s, the total United States labor force has generally risen as the population has grown, however, the annual average unemployment rate has fluctuated significantly, usually increasing in times of crisis, before falling more slowly during periods of recovery and economic stability. For example, unemployment peaked at 9.7 percent during the early 1980s recession, which was largely caused by the ripple effects of the Iranian Revolution on global oil prices and inflation. Other notable spikes came during the early 1990s; again, largely due to inflation caused by another oil shock, and during the early 2000s recession. The Great Recession then saw the U.S. unemployment rate soar to 9.6 percent, following the collapse of the U.S. housing market and its impact on the banking sector, and it was not until 2016 that unemployment returned to pre-recession levels. 2020s 2019 had marked a decade-long low in unemployment, before the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic saw the sharpest year-on-year increase in unemployment since the Great Depression, and the total number of workers fell by almost 10 million people. Despite the continuation of the pandemic in the years that followed, alongside the associated supply-chain issues and onset of the inflation crisis, unemployment reached just 3.67 percent in 2022 - current projections are for this figure to rise in 2023 and the years that follow, although these forecasts are subject to change if recent years are anything to go by.

Consulted persons (shared values), average debt: Germany, years, employment situation, socio-economic characteristics

Statistics on employment situation of graduates of full-time UGC-funded programmes

Average number of weekly hours dedicated to the care of persons under 15 years of age, by sex and employment situation. Average and standard deviation. Population aged 16 years old and over caring for persons under 15 years of age. National.

In 2025, there were estimated to be approximately 3.6 billion people employed worldwide, compared to 2.23 billion people in 1991 - an increase of around 1.4 billion people. There was a noticeable fall in global employment between 2019 and 2020, when the number of employed people fell from due to the sudden economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Formal vs. Informal employment globally Worldwide, there is a large gap between the informally and formally employed. Most informally employed workers reside in the Global South, especially Africa and Southeast Asia. Moreover, men are slightly more likely to be informally employed than women. The majority of informal work, nearly 90 percent, is within the agricultural sector, with domestic work and construction following behind. Women’s employment As the number of employees has risen globally, so has the number of employed women. Overall, care roles such as nursing and midwifery have the highest shares of female employees globally. Moreover, while the gender pay gap has shrunk over time, it still exists. As of 2024, the uncontrolled gender pay gap was 0.83, meaning women made, on average, 83 cents per every dollar earned by men.

This table contains information on the personal wellbeing of the Dutch population aged 20 years and older, from private households, in terms of happiness and satisfaction with life. These subjects are broken down by various life events, that is changes in marital status (single, widowed, divorced, married/partnership) and employment situation (disability, unemployment or social security benefit, employed and retired). The share of the population who are happy and satisfied is presented for the total population and broken down by age and gender. In addition, these figures are available for different moments before and after the life event. In this way, experienced wellbeing before or after a change in marital status or employment situation can be examined,

Data available from 1998 to 2009; displayed figures are average numbers over these years.

Status of the figures: The figures in this table are definite.

Changes per February 1st 2019: None, this table is final.

When will new figures be published? Not applicable.

This dataset contains annual average CES data for California statewide and areas from 1990 - 2023. The Current Employment Statistics (CES) program is a Federal-State cooperative effort in which monthly surveys are conducted to provide estimates of employment, hours, and earnings based on payroll records of business establishments. The CES survey is based on approximately 119,000 businesses and government agencies representing approximately 629,000 individual worksites throughout the United States. CES data reflect the number of nonfarm, payroll jobs. It includes the total number of persons on establishment payrolls, employed full- or part-time, who received pay (whether they worked or not) for any part of the pay period that includes the 12th day of the month. Temporary and intermittent employees are included, as are any employees who are on paid sick leave or on paid holiday. Persons on the payroll of more than one establishment are counted in each establishment. CES data excludes proprietors, self-employed, unpaid family or volunteer workers, farm workers, and household workers. Government employment covers only civilian employees; it excludes uniformed members of the armed services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is responsible for the concepts, definitions, technical procedures, validation, and publication of the estimates that State workforce agencies prepare under agreement with BLS.

Unemployment Rate in the United States remained unchanged at 4.20 percent in May. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Graph and download economic data for Employment Level (CE16OV) from Jan 1948 to May 2025 about civilian, 16 years +, household survey, employment, and USA.

In 1990, the unemployment rate of the United States stood at 5.6 percent. Since then there have been many significant fluctuations to this number - the 2008 financial crisis left millions of people without work, as did the COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of 2022 and throughout 2023, the unemployment rate came to 3.6 percent, the lowest rate seen for decades. However, 2024 saw an increase up to four percent. For monthly updates on unemployment in the United States visit either the monthly national unemployment rate here, or the monthly state unemployment rate here. Both are seasonally adjusted. UnemploymentUnemployment is defined as a situation when an employed person is laid off, fired or quits his work and is still actively looking for a job. Unemployment can be found even in the healthiest economies, and many economists consider an unemployment rate at or below five percent to mean there is 'full employment' within an economy. If former employed persons go back to school or leave the job to take care of children they are no longer part of the active labor force and therefore not counted among the unemployed. Unemployment can also be the effect of events that are not part of the normal dynamics of an economy. Layoffs can be the result of technological progress, for example when robots replace workers in automobile production. Sometimes unemployment is caused by job outsourcing, due to the fact that employers often search for cheap labor around the globe and not only domestically. In 2022, the tech sector in the U.S. experienced significant lay-offs amid growing economic uncertainty. In the fourth quarter of 2022, more than 70,000 workers were laid off, despite low unemployment nationwide. The unemployment rate in the United States varies from state to state. In 2021, California had the highest number of unemployed persons with 1.38 million out of work.

The percentage point gap between the percentage of respondents in the Labour Force Survey who have a long-term condition who are classified as employed (aged 16-64) and the percentage of all respondents in the Labour Force Survey classed as employed (aged 16-64). Numerator for employment rate of people with a long-term condition: Number of people with a health problem or disabilities that they expect will last for more than a year (based on response to Q1 of Annual Population Survey (APS) ) and who are in employment (either as an employee, self-employed, in government employment and training programmes or an unpaid family worker - ILO definition of basic economic activity) and are of working age (aged 16-64). Denominator for employment rate of people with a long-term condition: Number of people with a physical or mental health conditions or illness that they expect will last for more than a year (based on response to Q1 in APS) and are of working age (aged 16-64). Numerator for employment rate of population as a whole: Number of people who are in employment (either as an employee, self-employed, in government employment and training programmes or an unpaid family worker - ILO definition of basic economic activity) and are of working age (aged 16-64). Denominator for employment rate of population as a whole: Number of people who are of working age (aged 16-64).The indicator is constructed by calculating the percentage points gap between the employment rate for those with a long-term condition and the population as a whole. Isles of Scilly value was unable to be calculated. Calculations is based on data that are estimates and are rounded to nearest 100. It is advised that estimates published prior to the April 2013 to March 2014 period should not be treated as a time series due to these discontinuities. Due to this change, data from 2013/14 cannot be compared with previous time points. As a consequence, the baseline for this indicator has been changed to 2013/14.Data is Powered by LG Inform Plus and automatically checked for new data on the 3rd of each month.

Six alternative measures of labor underutilization have long been available on a monthly basis from the Current Population Survey (CPS) for the United States as a whole. They are published in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly Employment Situation news release. (See table 15.) The official concept of unemployment (as measured in the CPS by U-3 in the U-1 to U-6 range of alternatives) includes all jobless persons who are available to take a job and have actively sought work in the past four weeks. This concept has been thoroughly reviewed and validated since the inception of the CPS in 1940. The other measures are provided to data users and analysts who want more narrowly (U-1 and U-2) or broadly (U-4 through U-6) defined measures.

BLS is committed to updating the alternative measures data for states on a 4-quarter moving-average basis. The use of 4-quarter averages increases the reliability of the CPS estimates, which are based on relatively small sample sizes at the state level, and eliminates seasonality. Due to the inclusion of lagged quarters, the state alternative measures may not fully reflect the current status of the labor market. The analysis that follows pertains to the 2023 annual averages. Data are also available for prior time periods back to 2003.