Us Unemployment Rate 2024 By Month. Unemployment rate for 2020 was 8.06%, a 4.39% increase from 2019. These measures are higher than a year earlier, when the jobless rate was 3.6 percent and the number of unemployed people was 6.0 million.

Charts related to the latest the employment situation news release | more chart packages. The rate has been within the range of 3.4 percent and 3.8 percent since february 2022.