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The Washington State Department of Social Security was created by the legislature in 1937 with divisions to manage the state's unemployment benefits and employment offices. It was originally located in the Old Capitol Building in Olympia but outgrew its offices and was later furnished a separate headquarters building in January 1947.
Washington state’s unemployment rate also increased compared to last year. In March 2023, 180,382 people in the state were unemployed, 13,198 less than this March.
Whatcom County’s unemployment rate hit an extreme high of 17.4% in April 2020, and since then has fluctuated. Ferry County had the highest unemployment rate in January at 11.1%, and King County ...
Washington’s unemployment rate was the fifth highest of any state in the country and nearly a whole percentage point higher than the national rate of 3.9%, up from 3.7% last month.
State law determines individual state unemployment insurance tax rates and taxable wage bases. Although FUTA mandates a taxable wage base of $7,000 per employee, only Arizona, California, and Puerto Rico use this minimum as of 2020. The taxable wage base ranges significantly, with Washington using the highest amount of $52,700.
In the United States, there are 50 state unemployment insurance programs plus one each in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and United States Virgin Islands. Though policies vary by state, unemployment benefits generally pay eligible workers as high as $1,015 in Massachusetts to a low as $235 per week maximum in Mississippi.
In July 2022, Whatcom County’s unemployment rate was 4.4%, with 5,086 residents receiving unemployment, 1,089 more residents unemployed compared to July 2023.
The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication. [1] [2] While the non-seasonally adjusted data ...