Us Unemployment Rate 2024. The unemployment rate climbed to 4.2% after holding at 4.1% for two straight months. Both the unemployment rate, at 3.8 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 6.4 million, changed little in march.
Traders and economists expect the nfp report to show that the us created 218k net new jobs, with average hourly earnings rising 0.3% m/m (3.9% y/y) and the u3. Data ranges from 3.4 to 14.8.