Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey News Release — 2012-08-07

There were 3.8 million job openings on the last business day of June, little changed from 3.7 million in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The hires rate (3.3 percent) and separations rate (3.2 percent) were essentially unchanged in June. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the nonfarm sector by industry and by geographic region. The number of job openings in June was 3.8 million, little changed from May. (See table 1.) Job openings were little changed in all industries and regions. The level of total nonfarm job openings in June was up from 2.4 million at the end of the recession in June 2009. (Recession dates are determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research.) The number of job openings in June (not seasonally adjusted) increased over the year for total nonfarm and total private.