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U.S. Unemployment Rate · Bachelor's Degree and Higher, 25+

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2.5%

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Methodology

## What this measures

The share of the labor force aged 25 and over with at least a bachelor's degree that is unemployed. Monthly, seasonally adjusted, from 1992.

## Why it matters

It is the official unemployment rate for degree holders, the group with the steadiest jobs in the economy. A rise here reaches well beyond the entry level.

## How to read it

It runs at roughly half the overall rate. Compare it with the 20-to-24 rate (fred_unemployment_rate_20_24) to see how differently a slowdown lands on young workers and on experienced graduates, and with the NY Fed's college-graduate series (labor.nyfed.college_grads.unemployment_rate), which covers ages 22 to 65 and is smoothed.

## What it does not say

It combines all degrees from a bachelor's up and every field of study, and it leaves out graduates under 25.

## Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, series LNS14027662 ("Unemployment Rate - Bachelor's Degree and Higher, 25 Yrs. & over"). Palanor pulls it from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. Bureau of Labor Statistics data are in the public domain.

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