United States Continuing Jobless Claims 1967-2018 | Data | Chart

Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States decreased to 1707 thousand in the week ending May 5 of 2018 from 1794 thousand in the previous week. Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States averaged 2687.80 Thousand from 1967 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 6635 Thousand in May of 2009 and a record low of 988 Thousand in May of 1969.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-05-03	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims	1756K	1833K	1838K	1829.4K
2018-05-10	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims	1790K	1760K	1778K	1826K
2018-05-17	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims	1707K	1794K	1780K	1820.9K
2018-05-24	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims		1707K	1754K	1819K
2018-05-31	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims				1815K
2018-06-07	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims				1812K

United States Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	3.90	4.10	10.80	2.50	percent	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	164.00	135.00	1115.00	-834.00	Thousand	[+]
Nonfarm Payrolls Private	168.00	135.00	1089.00	-821.00	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	-4.00	0.00	427.00	-260.00	Thousand	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	24.00	22.00	572.00	-519.00	Thousand	[+]
Initial Jobless Claims	222.00	211.00	695.00	162.00	Thousand	[+]
Continuing Jobless Claims	1707.00	1794.00	6635.00	988.00	Thousand	[+]
ADP Employment Change	204.00	228.00	384.00	-836.00	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	155181.00	155178.00	155215.00	57635.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	6346.00	6585.00	15352.00	1596.00	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	0.10	0.20	0.60	-0.20	percent	[+]
Average Weekly Hours	34.50	34.50	34.60	33.70	Hours	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	62.80	62.90	67.30	58.10	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	0.80	0.82	2.80	0.80	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	8.40	8.50	19.50	7.80	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	109.97	109.25	109.97	17.13	Index Points	[+]
Productivity	109.13	108.94	109.13	27.62	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	6469.00	5893.00	6502.00	2132.00	Thousand	[+]
Job Offers	6550.00	6078.00	6550.00	2196.00	Thousand	[+]
Challenger Job Cuts	36081.00	60357.00	248475.00	15100.00	Persons	[+]
Wages	22.51	22.46	22.51	2.50	USD/Hour	[+]
Wage Growth	4.45	4.33	13.77	-5.77	percent	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	21.49	21.35	21.49	1.27	USD/Hour	[+]
Minimum Wages	7.25	7.25	7.25	0.25	USD/Hour	[+]
Employment Cost Index	0.80	0.60	1.60	0.20	percent	[+]
Population	325.72	323.41	325.72	76.09	Million	[+]
Retirement Age Women	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Retirement Age Men	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Employment Rate	60.30	60.40	64.70	55.00	percent	[+]
Full Time Employment	127753.00	127434.00	127753.00	64640.00	Thousand	[+]
Part Time Employment	27508.00	27858.00	28134.00	10086.00	Thousand	[+]
Living Wage Family	2240.00	2150.00	2240.00	2120.00	USD/Month	[+]
Living Wage Individual	1540.00	1460.00	1540.00	1420.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages High Skilled	4290.00	4120.00	4320.00	3640.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages Low Skilled	2090.00	1830.00	2100.00	1650.00	USD/Month	[+]

United States Continuing Jobless Claims

Continuing Jobless Claims refer to actual number of unemployed and currently receiving unemployment benefits who filed for unemployment benefits at least two weeks ago. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Continuing Jobless Claims - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States Continuing Jobless Claims - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on May of 2018.