United States Continuing Jobless Claims

Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States increased to 1661 thousand in the week ending December 1 of 2018 from 1636 thousand in the previous week. Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States averaged 2676.82 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.

Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States is expected to be 1600.00 Thousand by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States to stand at 1630.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United States Continuing Jobless Claims is projected to trend around 1700.00 Thousand in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-11-21	01:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims	1668K	1670K	1635K	1656K
2018-11-29	01:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims	1710K	1660K	1664K	1663K
2018-12-06	01:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims	1631K	1705K	1700K	1694K
2018-12-13	01:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims	1661K	1636K	1650K	1707K
2018-12-20	01:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims		1661K	1650K	1710K
2018-12-27	02:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims				1724K

United States Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	3.70	3.70	10.80	2.50	percent	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	155.00	237.00	1115.00	-834.00	Thousand	[+]
Nonfarm Payrolls Private	161.00	251.00	1089.00	-821.00	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	-6.00	-14.00	427.00	-260.00	Thousand	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	27.00	26.00	572.00	-519.00	Thousand	[+]
Initial Jobless Claims	206.00	233.00	695.00	162.00	Thousand	[+]
Continuing Jobless Claims	1661.00	1636.00	6635.00	988.00	Thousand	[+]
ADP Employment Change	179.00	225.00	384.00	-836.00	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	156795.00	156562.00	156795.00	57635.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	5975.00	6075.00	15352.00	1596.00	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	0.20	0.10	0.60	-0.20	percent	[+]
Average Weekly Hours	34.40	34.50	34.60	33.70	Hours	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	62.90	62.90	67.30	58.10	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	0.77	0.84	2.80	0.74	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	8.10	8.30	19.50	7.80	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	109.05	108.81	109.60	17.00	Index Points	[+]
Productivity	105.69	105.10	105.69	26.03	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	7320.00	7070.00	7320.00	2132.00	Thousand	[+]
Job Offers	7079.00	6960.00	7293.00	2196.00	Thousand	[+]
Challenger Job Cuts	53073.00	75644.00	248475.00	15100.00	Persons	[+]
Wages	22.95	22.88	22.95	2.50	USD/Hour	[+]
Wage Growth	4.60	4.79	13.78	-5.88	percent	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	21.82	21.67	21.82	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	60.60	60.60	64.70	55.00	percent	[+]
Full Time Employment	129755.00	129212.00	129755.00	64640.00	Thousand	[+]
Part Time Employment	27039.00	27297.00	28134.00	10086.00	Thousand	[+]
Living Wage Family	2380.00	2270.00	2380.00	2160.00	USD/Month	[+]
Living Wage Individual	1660.00	1560.00	1660.00	1450.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages High Skilled	4520.00	4330.00	4950.00	4330.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages Low Skilled	1960.00	1760.00	2340.00	1760.00	USD/Month	[+]

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 December of 2018.