Hawaii’s Unemployment Rate at 22.6% in May

Posted on Jun 18, 2020 in News

Hawaii State Seal

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

 DAVID Y. IGE
GOVERNOR

SCOTT T. MURAKAMI
DIRECTOR

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 18, 2020

HAWAI‘I’S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AT 22.6 PERCENT IN MAY

Jobs declined by 131,600 over-the-year

HONOLULU — The Hawai‘i State Department of Labor & Industrial Relations (DLIR) today announced that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for May was 22.6 percent compared to the revised rate of 23.8 percent in April. Statewide, 490,700 were employed and 143,150 unemployed in May for a total seasonally adjusted labor force of 633,850. Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 13.3 percent in May, down from 14.7 percent in April.

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