Michigan unemployment holds at 5% as household employment falls
Michigan’s September jobless rate stayed at 5%, while household employment fell 27,000 and payroll employment dropped 6,300.
Michigan’s September jobless rate stayed at 5%, while household employment fell 27,000 and payroll employment dropped 6,300.
Idaho added 700 nonfarm payroll jobs in September, while the labor force and employment counts fell. The unemployment rate held at 3.6%.
Nevada’s seasonally adjusted payroll jobs reached a record 1,620,200 in September, even as the labor force and employed-resident count fell from August.
Missouri payrolls declined from August but remained 28,400 above September 2025. Private service industries recorded the largest monthly losses.
Arizona added 22,700 not-seasonally-adjusted nonfarm payroll jobs over the year to September, a 0.7% increase. Its seasonally adjusted labor force fell by 121,241, or 3.2%.
Wisconsin’s preliminary September report gives different readings of the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate: 3.2% in the release text and 2.9% in its detailed table.
South Carolina reported record employment of 2,554,577 working residents in June, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%. More than 86,000 jobs were listed statewide.
Arkansas’ unemployment rate fell to 4.1% in June 2026 while statewide employment continued to increase, the Arkansas Department of Commerce reported.
Minnesota added 13,200 jobs in June 2026, a 0.4% monthly increase and the state’s third consecutive month of job growth, according to the Department of Employment and Economic Development.
Nebraska’s latest labor-market update reported a 4.3% seasonally adjusted unemployment rate and a monthly gain of 7,577 jobs in private industries. Preliminary July figures and revised June data are due Aug. 21.
Tennessee’s statewide unemployment rate was 3.6% for a third consecutive month, while 94 of the state’s 95 counties reported rates below 5%, according to the state labor department.
Vermont’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held at 2.6% in June, but employment and the civilian labor force both declined from May.
Wisconsin’s preliminary June labor report showed 3,030,100 people employed, 3,041,000 nonfarm jobs and a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.3%.