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2019 Q3 QCEW Master Report (pdf) - New
2019 County Profile Dashboard - New
2019 County Profile Downloads - New
Understanding Wisconsin's Job Outlook: Industry & Occupation Projections in Brief (pdf) - New
Projected 10 Hot Jobs by WDA dashboard - New
Workforce & Economic Outlook 2019 (pdf)
Using Data for Site Selection 2019 (pdf)
Examining Job Automation in Wisconsin (pdf)
Impact of New Projections Methodology (pdf)
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• Affirmative Action
• Current Employment Statistics (CES)
• Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS)
• Office of Economic Advisors (OEA)
• Occupational Employment Statistics (OES)
• Occupation and Industry Projections
• Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages (QCEW)

Unemployment Release

Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) and the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announce the latest U.S., State, and local unemployment rates and analysis.

Wisconsin's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for February 2020 was 3.5 percent, unchanged from 3.5 percent in January and up from 3.2 percent in February 2019. Without seasonal adjustment, February's rate was 4.0 percent, down from 4.2 percent in January and up from 3.8 percent in February 2019.

The U.S. seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for February 2020 was 3.5 percent, down from 3.6 percent in January and up from 3.2 percent in February 2019. Without seasonal adjustment, the U.S. rate for February 2020 was 3.8 percent, decreasing from 4.0 percent in January and down from 4.1 percent in February 2019.