Unemployment Rate 2024 April November. Estimates for the current month are subject to revision the following month. The latest employment report showed 142,000 jobs were added in august, falling short of the expected addition of 164,000 new jobs.

This is lower than the long term average of 5.69%. The national unemployment rate in the united states was 4.2% in august 2024, which is a slight increase from the previous month.