Massachusetts Weekly Unemployment Claimant Data (06-11-20)

For immediate release:

6/11/2020

Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development

Charles Pearce, Director of Communications, Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development

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BOSTON — Massachusetts had 44,660 individuals file an initial claim for standard Unemployment Insurance (UI) from May 31 to June 6, an increase of 17,626 over the previous week. Since March 15, a total of 968,899 initial claims have been filed for UI. At 565,898, continued UI claims decreased by 9,964 or 1.7% over the previous week, the second consecutive week of decline.

There were 20,991, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) initial claims filed for the week ending June 6, 33,290 less than the previous week. Since April 20, 2020, 594,068 claimants have filed for PUA.

The Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), which provided up to 13 weeks of extended benefits to individuals who have exhausted or expired their regular unemployment compensation since July 2019 was implemented on May 21. For the week ending June 6, 3,692 PEUC claims were filed bringing the total of PEUC filings to 46,945 since implementation.

Since March, the customer service staff at the Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) has grown from around 50 employees to nearly 2000. The remote customer service operation is now making over 35,000 individual contacts per day and DUA continues to host unemployment town halls – which have been held in English, Spanish, and Portuguese - and have been attended by around 350,000 constituents.

The below charts are relative to standard UI only.

**Initial Claims Filed**
Industry	Week Ending 5/30	Week Ending 6/6	Change	% Change
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting	85	117	32	37.6%
Mining	3	5	2	66.7%
Utilities	21	80	59	281.0%
Construction	890	1,269	379	42.6%
Manufacturing	1,698	2,075	377	22.2%
Wholesale Trade	796	1,252	456	57.3%
Retail Trade	2,752	4,836	2,084	75.7%
Transportation & Warehouse	903	1,524	621	68.8%
Information	483	682	199	41.2%
Finance & Insurance	455	789	334	73.4%
Real Estate	301	521	220	73.1%
Professional and Technical Services	1,597	2,476	879	55.0%
Management of Companies	684	1,704	1,020	149.1%
Administrative & Waste Services	1,720	3,501	1,781	103.5%
Education	1,541	2,228	687	44.6%
Health & Social Assistance	3,279	5,908	2,629	80.2%
Arts, Entertainment & Recreation	637	872	235	36.9%
Food & Accommodation	2,768	4,901	2,133	77.1%
Other Services	1,343	2,826	1,483	110.4%
Public Administration	811	1,515	704	86.8%
Information Not Available	4,267	5,579	1,312	30.7%

Initial claims by industry

Continued weeks claimed by industry

Industry share of CWC in most recent week

Below we present demographic statistics on ethnicity, gender, and race for all those claimants who filed for a continued week in the period prior to the above information. This is to say that because of the timing of data availability, the below statistics reflect continued weeks claimed in the week ending May 30^th rather than the week ending June 6^th.