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) 2022 was 58.2 percent; the UNTEER (90 percent of the PY National VEER) was 52.4 percent. States with VEERs of 52.4 percent or higher have met the threshold for the PY 2022 UNTEER.
The dashboard below shows the percentage of exiters who were unemployed or received notice of termination/layoff at program entry and were then employed in the first quarter after exit for each state, ranked from highest to lowest VEER.
PY 2022 Veteran Entered Employment Rates by State
PY 2022 Veteran Entered Employment Rates by State
iSOURCE: State Wagner-Peyser and Jobs for Veterans State Grants quarterly reports; Workforce Integrated Performance System (WIPS). Quarter ending June 30, 2023.
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, 2021, and September 30, 2022, and were employed in the first quarter after the exit beginning January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022.
iiiExiters: The number of veterans and other eligible persons who were not employed at program entry who exited the program between October 1, 2021, and September 30, 2022.