U.S. Department of Labor -- Veterans' Employment and Training Service

State Workforce Agencies nationwide operate One-Stop Career Centers that provide employment and workforce information services in local communities. These centers serve at no cost to employers or job seekers who access the services available. State Workforce Agencies also provide priority of service and supplementary assistance to veterans and disabled veteran job seekers.

There are two key measures of the outcomes experienced by participating job seekers. The first is the Entered Employment Rate (EER), which is the percent of the participants who are employed in the quarter after the last quarter in which they received services. The second measure is the Employment Retention Rate (ERR), which is the percent of those entering employment who also are employed in the first and second quarters after entering employment. The definitions established under the Common Measures for the EER and ERR were applied for the first time to the results reported by State Workforce Agencies through December 2005. The results achieved by each State for these two measures, as applied to both veteran and disabled veteran participants, are presented below.

Performance Outcomes By State Source: ETA 9002 D Qtr Ending December 31, 2008
			(Reported as of: 03-10-2009)

	Veteran			Disabled Veteran
State	Entered Employment Rate	Employment Retention Rate	Average Earnings	Entered Employment Rate	Employment Retention Rate	Average Earnings
Alabama	70%	85%	$14,639	66%	84%	$15,896
Alaska	56%	80%	$20,644	55%	83%	$21,582
Arizona	59%	52%	$14,209	52%	51%	$13,972
Arkansas	67%	81%	$13,067	64%	79%	$13,210
California	49%	77%	$20,686	45%	77%	$23,317
Colorado	66%	81%	$17,681	61%	81%	$18,007
Connecticut	56%	78%	$17,166	51%	72%	$16,435
Delaware	59%	81%	$13,506	58%	78%	$13,675
District of Columbia	57%	80%	$20,826	56%	81%	$19,838
Florida	61%	80%	$14,905	56%	81%	$15,442
Georgia	63%	81%	$21,295	58%	80%	$21,717
Hawaii	45%	76%	$16,247	39%	77%	$17,500
Idaho	65%	74%	$13,270	62%	74%	$13,188
Illinois	61%	83%	$17,015	57%	83%	$17,178
Indiana	65%	84%	$16,618	56%	71%	$16,947
Iowa	70%	85%	$14,442	63%	84%	$15,144
Kansas	73%	85%	$13,507	69%	83%	$14,220
Kentucky	67%	81%	$14,142	62%	80%	$14,681
Louisiana	61%	77%	$16,561	55%	76%	$16,321
Maine	58%	83%	$13,544	54%	81%	$13,776
Maryland	65%	82%	$17,579	60%	83%	$18,455
Massachusetts	59%	80%	$17,832	48%	77%	$16,049
Michigan	51%	78%	$15,235	47%	75%	$15,062
Minnesota	56%	84%	$17,765	48%	85%	$16,061
Mississippi	67%	81%	$11,152	60%	79%	$12,365
Missouri	66%	80%	$11,914	63%	82%	$12,782
Montana	70%	84%	$29,741	68%	84%	$28,261
Nebraska	64%	83%	$13,270	55%	78%	$13,244
Nevada	67%	79%	$18,387	62%	79%	$18,237
New Hampshire	61%	74%	$15,794	62%	71%	$15,996
New Jersey	59%	80%	$17,805	57%	77%	$17,852
New Mexico	58%	74%	$16,450	50%	70%	$17,942
New York	68%	83%	$16,587	63%	82%	$16,074
North Carolina	52%	78%	$13,333	48%	77%	$14,884
North Dakota	67%	86%	$15,138	58%	83%	$14,158
Ohio	62%	82%	$18,779	61%	81%	$18,960
Oklahoma	69%	82%	$14,438	67%	80%	$15,389
Oregon	61%	83%	$15,050	58%	81%	$15,059
Pennsylvania	63%	81%	$14,400	57%	78%	$14,430
Puerto Rico	15%	0%	-$9,006	13%	0%	-$18,943
Rhode Island	56%	81%	$15,009	52%	76%	$16,189
South Carolina	70%	85%	$14,594	68%	84%	$14,790
South Dakota	68%	82%	$12,562	59%	80%	$13,121
Tennessee	65%	82%	$13,481	63%	80%	$13,577
Texas	68%	86%	$17,623	61%	85%	$16,601
Utah	72%	86%	$16,449	67%	84%	$17,479
Vermont	66%	83%	$15,063	64%	88%	$16,790
Virginia	67%	84%	$16,416	64%	83%	$17,335
Virgin Islands	43%	65%	$16,309	25%	40%	$28,296
Washington	69%	85%	$17,050	66%	85%	$17,102
West Virginia	66%	80%	$14,884	61%	79%	$15,218
Wisconsin	64%	84%	$14,127	59%	79%	$13,789
Wyoming	66%	83%	$19,717	59%	82%	$19,473
National Average	62%	81%	$16,557	58%	80%	$16,867