2024 Unemployment Rate Usa 2022. And california had the highest overall unemployment rates at 5.3% and 5.2% respectively,. Economy faced a severe downturn in the early months of the pandemic, with the unemployment rate spiking to 14.8 per cent in april 2020, the highest level recorded in.

Charts related to the latest the employment situation. The unemployment rate averaged 3.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2022, which is 0.6 percentage point below the rate in the fourth quarter of 2021.