Us Unemployment Rate 2024 By State. Sep 6, 2024, 5:32 am pdt. The unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percentage point to 3.9 percent in february 2024, and the number of unemployed people increased by 334,000 to 6.5.

Thirty states had jobless rate increases. Unemployment rate rose to 4.3% in july and hiring slowed, adding to signs of a broader downturn in what has been a solid u.s.