Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey News Release — 2013-12-10

There were 3.9 million job openings on the last business day of October, little changed from September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The hires rate (3.3 percent) and separations rate (3.1 percent) were also little changed in October. 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. There were 3.9 million job openings in October, little changed from September. The number of openings was little changed for total private and government. The number of job openings increased in arts, entertainment, and recreation and in the Midwest region and was little changed in the remaining industries and regions. (See table 1.) The number of job openings (not seasonally adjusted) increased over the year for total nonfarm and total private and was little changed for government.