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Unemployment of recent graduates 5.7%

Jun 2026

Unemployment of recent graduates rose 1.7 points since Jan 2019

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Jesse Hawkins, “Grapher: Unemployment of recent graduates”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 11 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/series/grads/. Data: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, cited as it asks.

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@misc{hawkins2026seriesgrads,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{Grapher: Unemployment of recent graduates}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/series/grads/}},
  note = {Data: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, cited as it asks, retrieved 2026-10-11}
}

The series

The New York Fed’s unemployment rate for recent college graduates, aged 22 to 27 with a bachelor’s degree or higher. Retrieved by this site on 2026-10-11.

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Newest reading	Jun 2026	5.7%
A year before	Jun 2025	4.9%
Highest reading	Jun 2020	13.4%
Lowest reading	Apr 2019	3.5%
First reading	Jan 2019	4.0%

What the series is

The New York Fed’s unemployment rate for recent college graduates, aged 22 to 27 with a bachelor’s degree or higher. Unit: percent.

Terms: Recent graduates

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Federal Reserve Bank of New York, cited as it asks: Unemployment of recent graduates. Retrieved 2026-10-11.