{"id":17383,"date":"2025-07-17T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/17383\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:02:08","slug":"maui-county-unemployment-was-3-5-in-june-maui-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/17383\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui County unemployment was 3.5% in June : Maui Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/unemployment-hawaii-june-2025-b-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-494267\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Maui County\u2019s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment was 3.6% in June, according to data released by the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.  The rate remains well below the 4.8% unemployment recorded one year before, in June 2024, but higher than the rate reported the month before of 2.9% in May.<\/p>\n<p>Maui Island itself had a 3.5% unemployment rate, up from 2.9% in May, but down from the 4.8% reported at the same time last year.  <\/p>\n<p>On the other islands of Maui County, Moloka\u2018i experienced the sharpest month-to-month increase in the state, with unemployment rising from 4% in May to 6.5% in June\u2014now the highest rate among all Hawaiian Islands. On L\u0101na\u2018i the unemployment rate increased from 3.9% in May to 4.3% in June.<\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD<\/p>\n<p>DBEDT reports the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for June\u00a0was\u00a02.8%, the same as in May. In June, 669,750 persons were employed and 19,350 were unemployed, for a total seasonally adjusted labor force of 689,100 statewide. Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.1% in June, down from 4.2% in May.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate figures reported for the state of Hawai\u2018i and the US are seasonally adjusted in accordance with US Bureau of Labor Statistics methodology. The not-seasonally adjusted rate for the state was 3.3% in June, compared to 2.6% in May.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate measure of employment, total nonagricultural jobs decreased by 1,200 month-over-month, from May 2025 to June 2025. Job gains were experienced in Private Education &amp; Health Services (+300); and Trade, Transportation &amp; Utilities (+100). <\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD<\/p>\n<p>Employment remained unchanged in Construction; Manufacturing; Information; and Financial Activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ADARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD<\/p>\n<p>Job losses occurred in Professional &amp; Business Services (-200); Other Services (-400); and Leisure &amp; Hospitality (-1,400). <\/p>\n<p>Government employment went up by 400 jobs. Year-over-year, nonfarm jobs have gone up by 14,500, or 2.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maui County\u2019s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment was 3.6% in June, according to data released by the state Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,16311,16312,16313,134,16314,16315,16316,16317],"class_list":["post-17383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-dbedt","tag-hawaii-jobless-rate","tag-hawaii-unemployment","tag-jobs","tag-maui-jobless","tag-maui-jobs","tag-maui-unemployment","tag-unemployement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}