UNTEER

The Uniform National Threshold Entered Employment Rate (UNTEER) is a national threshold Veterans’ Entered Employment Rate (VEER) for veterans and other eligible persons served by the Jobs for Veterans State Grants (JVSG) program and the Wagner-Peyser funded Employment Service.

The VEER is Calculated as Follows

Of those veterans and other eligible persons who were not employed at program entry: the number of veterans and eligible persons who are employed in the first quarter after the exit quarter divided by the number of veterans and eligible persons who exit during this quarter ⁱ .

The National VEER for Program Year (PY) 2023 was 56.1 percent; the UNTEER (90 percent of the PY National VEER) was 50.5 percent. States with VEERs of 50.5 percent or higher have met the threshold for the PY 2023 UNTEER.

The dashboard below shows the percentage of exiters who were unemployed at program entry and were then employed in the first quarter after exit for each state, ranked from highest to lowest VEER.ⁱⁱⁱ 

PY 2023 Veteran Entered Employment Rates by Stateⁱⁱ 

ⁱSOURCE: State Wagner-Peyser and Jobs for Veterans State Grants quarterly reports; Workforce Integrated Performance System (WIPS). Quarter ending June 30, 2024.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 2-13 (PDF); Implementation of the Uniform National Threshold Entered Employment Rate (UNTEER) for Veterans and Eligible Persons in the Wagner-Peyser Employment Service and Jobs for Veterans State Grants (JVSG)

ⁱⁱEntered Employment: The number of veterans and other eligible persons who were not employed at program entry who exited the program between October 1, 2022, and September 30, 2023, and were employed in the first quarter after the exit beginning January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023.

ⁱⁱⁱExiters: The number of veterans and other eligible persons who were not employed at program entry who exited the program between October 1, 2022, and September 30, 2023.