Monthly employment report

The monthly employment report is a comprehensive report on Washington’s job market. We report the unemployment rate statewide and for the nation, the number of people in Washington’s workforce and the number of jobs by industry. Open the October 2018 monthly employment report (State and Seattle Metropolitan Division only). Report charts and tables are also available. For county-level data, see the map below for county unemployment rates. Alternate measures of labor underutilization (U6) are discussed here.

For more charts and graphs at the national level, see the BLS Employment Situation report.

The Labor force by county snapshot can be accessed here and additional reports in the report library.

2018 monthly employment report publication dates

Preliminary data for month of	State and Seattle Metropolitan Division numbers released	All other county numbers released
December 2017	January 17, 2018 (Wednesday)	January 23, 2018
January 2018	March 7	March 13
February 2018	March 21	March 27
March 2018	April 18	April 24
April 2018	May 16	May 22
May 2018	June 13	June 19
June 2018	July 18	July 24
July 2018	August 15	August 21
August 2018	September 19	September 25
September 2018	October 17	October 23
October 2018	November 14	November 20
November 2018	December 19	December 27 (Thursday)
December 2018	January 16, 2019	January 23, 2019 (Wednesday)

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