Vermont saw an 11.5 percent decrease in its unemployment rate from April to May this year, the highest change rate of any state. Meanwhile, Montana saw a 3.1 percent increase in its unemployment rate, according to June 16 data from WalletHub based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Change in unemployment rate by state from April to May:
- Vermont: -11.5 percent
- New Hampshire: -10.4 percent
- Massachusetts: -8 percent
- Oregon: -7 percent
- Wyoming: -6 percent
- Washington: -5.3 percent
- Hawaii: -4.9 percent
- Arkansas: -4.9 percent
- Mississippi: -4.8 percent
- Virginia: -4.2 percent
- Maryland: -4.2 percent
- Michigan: -3.8 percent
- Illinois: -3.5 percent
- Pennsylvania: -3.2 percent
- Nebraska: -2.8 percent
- Maine: -2.4 percent
- Ohio: -2.2 percent
- Connecticut: -2 percent
- North Carolina: -1.7 percent
- Oklahoma: -1.7 percent
- Delaware: -1.4 percent
- Kansas: -1.3 percent
- West Virginia: -1.3 percent
- Iowa: -1.1 percent
- Rhode Island: -1 percent
- Alaska: -0.9 percent
- Nevada: -0.7 percent
- South Dakota: -0.7 percent
- New York: -0.6 percent
- Tennessee: -0.4 percent
- Arizona: -0.2 percent
- North Dakota: -0.1 percent
- South Carolina: No change
- Alabama: No change
- New Mexico: +0.2 percent
- Wisconsin: +0.5 percent
- Colorado: +0.7 percent
- Kentucky: +1 percent
- Louisiana: +1.1 percent
- Missouri: +1.2 percent
- Utah: +1.6 percent
- California: +1.7 percent
- Minnesota: +1.7 percent
- Texas: +1.8 percent
- Idaho: +2.1 percent
- Indiana: +2.2 percent
- Florida: +2.2 percent
- New Jersey: +2.5 percent
- Georgia: +2.7 percent
- Montana: +3.1 percent