That's okay, as long that effect is roughly equal in every period of increasing unemployment. This and many other factors make it meaningless to treat unemployment additively, e.g. to say that 8% unemployment is "twice as bad" as 4%, but it doesn't diminish the number's comparative value, telling us whether we're better or worse off than before.
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Those numbers are absolutely meaningless, since they count a $70K/yr job, in the same category as a $7/hr burger flipper.
You can take that 7.2%, and pretty much double it for all the people who got fired, and had to take a job paying half of what they used to make.
That's okay, as long that effect is roughly equal in every period of increasing unemployment. This and many other factors make it meaningless to treat unemployment additively, e.g. to say that 8% unemployment is "twice as bad" as 4%, but it doesn't diminish the number's comparative value, telling us whether we're better or worse off than before.