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<\/a>File Image<\/p>\nUnemployment rate figures for the state and United States in this release are seasonally adjusted in accordance with U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics methodology.<\/p>\n
The not-seasonally adjusted rate for the state was 2.3% in February, an increase compared with 2.1% in January.<\/p>\n
Industry payroll employment<\/p>\n
In a separate measure of employment, total nonagricultural jobs increased by 400 from January to February.<\/p>\n
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Job gains were experienced in:<\/p>\n
Trade, transportation and utilities (+500).<\/p>\n
Construction (+200).<\/p>\n
Leisure and hospitality (+100).<\/p>\n
Employment remained unchanged in:<\/p>\n
Manufacturing.<\/p>\n
Information.<\/p>\n
Financial activities.<\/p>\n
Job losses occurred in:<\/p>\n
Professional and business services (-100).<\/p>\n
Private education and health services (-200).<\/p>\n
Other services (-300).<\/p>\n
NOTE: Government employment went up by 200 jobs. Nonfarm jobs increased by 2,100, or 0.3%, from 2025.<\/p>\n
Hawai`i Seasonally Adjusted Labor Force Data**<\/p>\n
February 2026January 2026February 2025*Labor Force687,850688,000688,200Employment672,150672,750670,650Unemployment15,65015,30017,550<\/p>\n
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* benchmarked data; **totals might not add because of rounding.<\/p>\n
Unemployment Rates (%)<\/p>\n
February 2026January 2026February 2025*Seasonally AdjustedSTATE2.32.22.6UNITED STATES4.44.34.2Not Seasonally AdjustedSTATE2.32.12.4City and County of Honolulu2.22.12.3Hawai\u2018i County2.62.42.8Kaua\u2018i County2.32.12.3Maui County2.52.42.9 Maui2.42.32.9 Moloka\u2018i2.33.02.6 L\u0101na\u2018i4.83.33.1UNITED STATES4.74.74.5<\/p>\n
County and island rates are not seasonally adjusted; * benchmarked data.<\/p>\n
Notes about seasonal adjustment<\/p>\n
Seasonal fluctuations in the number of employed and unemployed people reflect hiring and layoff patterns accompanying regular events such as the winter holiday season and summer vacation season.<\/p>\n
These variations make it difficult to tell whether month-to-month changes in employment and unemployment are because of normal seasonal patterns or to changing economic conditions. Therefore, seasonal adjustment is used to address these issues.<\/p>\n
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This technique uses the history of labor force data and job count data to identify the seasonal movements and calculate size and direction of these movements.<\/p>\n
A seasonal adjustment factor is then developed and applied to the estimates to eliminate the effects of regular seasonal fluctuations on the data.<\/p>\n
Seasonally adjusted statistical series enable more meaningful data comparisons between months or with an annual average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawai\u2018i Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism reports that seasonally adjusted unemployment for February ticked slightly up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[264461,264462,264463,264464,264465,5375,5376,28,2788,101,264466,13888,264467,132954,47096,264468,264469,264470,264471,264472,264473],"class_list":["post-608734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-15650-unemployed","tag-2-2-in-january","tag-2-3","tag-4-4-for-nation","tag-672150-people-employed","tag-big-island-news","tag-big-island-now","tag-business","tag-data","tag-economy","tag-hawaii-department-of-business-economic-development-and-tourism","tag-hawaii-news","tag-hawaii-state-unemployment-rate","tag-job-gains","tag-job-losses","tag-not-seasonally-adjusted-rates","tag-seasonally-adjusted","tag-ticks-up-slightly","tag-total-seasonally-adjusted-labor-force-of-687850-statewide","tag-unchanged","tag-up-slightly-for-u-s-from-4-3-in-january"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608734","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=608734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}