State Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) News Release - 2025 M05 Results — 2025-06-24

(NOTE: On July 18, 2025, BLS corrected errors in seasonally adjusted estimates for all employees in state government and its aggregates for New Jersey. Seasonally adjusted estimates for 3-month average change were corrected at aggregate levels. Not seasonally adjusted estimates for all employees were not impacted. Tables in this news release contain the incorrect data and will not be reissued. Corrected data are available in the BLS database, at www.bls.gov/sae/data/. For a complete list of series and products impacted by the correction, see www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.) Unemployment rates were higher in May in 3 states, lower in 2 states, and stable in 45 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Twenty-four states and the District had jobless rate increases from a year earlier, 4 states had decreases, and 22 states had little change.