Us Unemployment Rate April 2024. The us also added 175,000 jobs, far below the forecast. Unemployment rate in the united states averaged 5.69 percent from 1948 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 14.90 percent in april of 2020 and a record low of 2.50 percent in may of 1953.

And in a somewhat mixed. Though the unemployment rate ticked up from 3.8% to 3.9% in april, it was the 27th straight month in which the rate has remained below 4%, tying the longest such streak.