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Nebraska’s preliminary unemployment rate for this past January is 3.0 percent, seasonally adjusted.
After benchmarking revisions completed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the rate has been unchanged going back to November 2025 and is up 0.1 percentage points from the January 2025 unemployment rate of 2.9 percent.
The national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for January 2026 is 4.3 percent, down 0.1 percentage points from the December 2025 unemployment rate and up 0.3 percent from the January 2025 unemployment rate.
In a news release, the state department of labor explains benchmarked unemployment refers to an annual update by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that adjusts previous estimates of jobs and unemployment using confirmed employment records, such as tax filings or reports from employers. Each year, the bureau reviews and updates monthly jobs and unemployment figures with these more accurate records. This ensures the numbers reflect real job-market conditions by comparing earlier estimates to recent, verified data.
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