Hawaii Unemployment at 4.6 Percent, Lowest in Five Years

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From a press release Thursday (July 18):

The Hawaii State Department of Labor and Industrial Relations today announced that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for June declined to 4.6 percent, from 4.7 percent in May.

The last time the unemployment rate was 4.6 percent was in September 2008. Statewide, there were 617,250 employed and 29,700 unemployed in June, for a total seasonally adjusted labor force of 646,950. Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 7.6 percent in June, unchanged from May.

Initial claims and weeks claims decreased by 48 or -2.5% and by 1,796 or -13.0% consecutively for unemployment benefits compared to one year ago. Over-the-month both initial claims and weeks claims increased by 2.6% and 1.9% consecutively in May 2013. …

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—Chad Blair

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