Table A-1.
Median statutory replacement rates by state.
| Replacement rate (SE) |
Replacement rate (SE) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | With FPUC | Without FPUC | State | With FPUC | Without FPUC |
| Alaska | 139% (6.1) | 46% (0.6) | Montana | 154% (3.0) | 52% (0.0) |
| Alabama | 148% (1.3) | 47% (0.7) | North Carolina | 152% (1.1) | 50% (0.0) |
| Arkansas | 152% (3.6) | 50% (0.0) | North Dakota | 148% (5.1) | 50% (0.0) |
| Arizona | 119% (5.8) | 34% (1.6) | Nebraska | 152% (6.1) | 50% (0.0) |
| California | 143% (3.2) | 50% (0.0) | New Hampshire | 139% (4.0) | 48% (1.3) |
| Colorado | 150% (5.2) | 60% (0.0) | New Jersey | 141% (6.0) | 60% (0.0) |
| Connecticut | 145% (5.1) | 50% (0.0) | New Mexico | 162% (5.2) | 53% (0.0) |
| Delaware | 159% (7.5) | 57% (0.0) | Nevada | 139% (2.3) | 52% (0.0) |
| Florida | 148% (1.0) | 47% (0.3) | New York | 135% (2.9) | 50% (0.0) |
| Georgia | 163% (1.8) | 62% (1.7) | Ohio | 142% (4.2) | 50% (0.0) |
| Hawaii | 149% (3.6) | 62% (0.0) | Oklahoma | 165% (6.9) | 57% (0.0) |
| Iowa | 151% (2.7) | 57% (0.0) | Oregon | 158% (6.6) | 65% (0.0) |
| Idaho | 152% (3.9) | 50% (0.0) | Pennsylvania | 147% (4.1) | 51% (0.0) |
| Illinois | 149% (4.8) | 47% (0.0) | Rhode Island | 136% (6.8) | 50% (0.0) |
| Indiana | 143% (5.3) | 47% (0.0) | South Carolina | 138% (4.3) | 49% (1.4) |
| Kansas | 143% (5.6) | 55% (0.0) | South Dakota | 155% (4.2) | 50% (0.0) |
| Kentucky | 160% (7.9) | 62% (1.6) | Tennessee | 142% (6.6) | 44% (2.7) |
| Louisiana | 143% (6.2) | 39% (2.2) | Texas | 153% (4.0) | 52% (0.0) |
| Massachusetts | 135% (3.0) | 50% (0.0) | Utah | 151% (4.5) | 49% (0.1) |
| Maryland | 144% (5.7) | 54% (0.0) | Virginia | 154% (3.3) | 52% (0.0) |
| Maine | 161% (4.2) | 59% (0.0) | Vermont | 147% (5.7) | 58% (0.0) |
| Michigan | 140% (3.9) | 53% (1.5) | Washington | 137% (2.3) | 50% (0.0) |
| Minnesota | 145% (5.7) | 50% (0.0) | Wisconsin | 154% (2.5) | 52% (0.0) |
| Missouri | 154% (3.7) | 51% (1.5) | West Virginia | 157% (3.2) | 55% (1.3) |
| Mississippi | 147% (8.9) | 41% (2.5) | Wyoming | 154% (6.5) | 52% (0.0) |
Notes: this table reports the median statutory replacement rate for April through July 2020 with and without Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC). The median replacement rates we report exceed measures of mean replacement rates calculated a part of the Department of Labor's Benefit Accuracy Measurement (BAM) program. For example, using the 2019 ASEC to model benefits in 2019Q2, we find that the national median replacement rate is 50% while the mean “replacement rate 2” in BAM is 36%. This is because benefits schedules have caps, which lower replacement rates for unemployed with high pre-job loss earnings. These caps bring down mean replacement rates but are not relevant for the median unemployed worker. Many states have a reported standard error of zero for their replacement rate without FPUC. The best way to convey the intuition for how this can arise is to consider a scenario where there is no cap in unemployment benefits, so every worker has the same replacement rate. In this case, regardless of whether the inference procedure is a bootstrap or replicate weights, we will find that there is no sampling-based uncertainty about the median replacement rate. In practice, states with benefit caps that are high relative to the median wage for unemployed workers will have a standard error of zero.