Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey News Release — 2013-10-24

There were 3.9 million job openings on the last business day of August, little changed from July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The hires rate (3.3 percent) and separations rate (3.2 percent) also were little changed in August. 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 August was 3.9 million, little changed from July. (See table 1.) The number of job openings rose in August in three industries and declined in state and local government. Job openings were up in the Northeast region. The number of job openings in August (not seasonally adjusted) rose over the year for total nonfarm and total private but fell for government. Job openings levels increased in several industries and decreased in information. In the Midwest region, the number of job openings rose over the year.