Updated: 4/12/2025
Overview
The Employment Information Dashboard presents benefit activities filed through the Utah Unemployment Insurance (UI) system, along with active employer job postings through the Department of Workforce Services job board. These real-time measures offer a time-sensitive snapshot upon Utah’s economic trajectory. Together, these variables speak toward Utah’s current and anticipated labor market tendency. The dashboard is intended for informational purposes only.
WEEK OF 4/12/2025
Presented UI benefits lag one week as per U.S. Department of Labor mandate. The reporting period is Sunday through Saturday. Initial claims are the count of persons filing for new unemployment benefits during the week. Continued claims are ongoing benefit claimaints who initiated in prior weeks. Net claims is the change in the aggregate of initial and continued claims compared to the same aggregation from the prior week.
Traditional
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
Job postings
Colors reflect the percentage changes in claim activities.
HISTORICAL
Select the time range for historical perspectives upon variables. Shaded areas indicate U.S. recessions.
NOTES
Data are updated weekly (Monday of every week)
All unemployment claims data come from the UI system
Job postings data come from the UWORKS system. It is not inclusive of all potential job postings in the state of Utah.
Net claims formula:
Project
Team
Mark Knold
Chief Economist
Jeremias Solari
Chief of Research
Karen Tao
Data Scientist