Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey News Release — 2009-12-08

NOTE: This release was reissued on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, to correct an error in the �Separations� section on page 3 of the text. The stated change in the number of quits between December 2006 and April 2009 was corrected to 1.4 million. There were 2.5 million job openings on the last business day of October 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The job openings rate was unchanged over the month at 1.9 percent. The openings rate has held relatively steady since March 2009. The hires rate (3.0 percent) and the separations rate (3.2 percent) were essentially unchanged and remained low. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the total nonfarm sector by industry and geographic region. The job openings rate was unchanged in October at 1.9 percent.