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Wyoming Department of Workforce Services

Research & Planning
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PO Box 2760
Casper, WY 82602
(307) 473-3807

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"Labor Market Information (LMI) is an applied science; it is the systematic collection and analysis of data which describes and predicts the relationship between labor demand and supply." The States' Labor Market Information Review, ICESA, 1995, p. 7.

2020 Wyoming Workforce Annual Report

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Wyoming Unemployment Insurance Claims Statistics

Weekly Claims Reports | Current Monthly Claims Report | Monthly Tables and Figures | Annual Tables and Figures | Previous Monthly Claims Reports | Articles

NEW! Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims for Wyoming


Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims for Wyoming by County of Residence, Industry, and Selected Demographics, 2019-2020

Updated September 17, 2020, for the week ending September 12, 2020.


Weekly UI Claims Data Table of Contents

Current Monthly UI Claims Report

August 2020 Unemployment Insurance Claims Report:
Initial Claims Drop 37% from July

Initial Unemployment Insurance (UI) claims dropped 36.9% from July to August. While UI claims counts are substantially higher from the prior year, both initial and continued claims have decreased consistently after peaking in the spring. Total continued weeks claimed decreased by 21.7% over the month.

Wyoming had 5,134 initial claims in August, down from 8,138 in July ((-3,004, or -36.9%). Initial claims peaked at 20,485 in April, the highest one-month total since at least 1997, the first year for which comparable data are available.

All industries and counties saw double-digit percentage decreases in initial claims from July to August.

The total number of continued weeks claimed decreased from 73,590 in July to 57,636 in August (-15,954, or -21.7%). The total number of unique claimants decreased from 20,898 to 15,909 (-4,989, or -23.9%). Continued claims decreased in all industries and counties over the month.

August 2020 UI Claims Report

Published September 21, 2020.

Monthly Tables and Figures

*Information displayed in Initial and Continued Claims are adjusted for monthly comparisons by normalizing the number of weeks in each month to a standard 4.33 weeks.

**NAICS = North American Industry Classification code.

***SIC = Standard Industrial Classification code.  

Annual Tables and Figures

Updated February 2020.

Previous Monthly UI Claims Reports

July 2020 |
June 2020 | May 2020 | April 2020 |
March 2020 | February 2020 | January 2020

December 2019 | November 2019 | October 2019 |
September 2019 | August 2019 | July 2019 |
June 2019 | May 2019 | April 2018 |
March 2019 | February 2019 | January 2019

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March 2017 | February 2017 | January 2017

December 2016 | November 2016 | October 2016 |
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March 2016 | February 2016 | January 2016

December 2015 | November 2015

Selected Articles from Wyoming Labor Force Trends and Other Publications