The Massachusetts unemployment rate reflects the number of people in Massachusetts who are actively looking for a job. This data is not the same as the number of people in Massachusetts who receive unemployment benefits from the state, but instead it is only those actively looking for employment.
The rate of unemployment in Massachusetts is reflected in the graph below:
Massachusetts’s unemployment information has been compiled by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and is accurate up to this year. You can find out more about Massachusetts’s unemployment at the Massachusetts Labor and Workforce Development.
