State Job Openings and Labor Turnover News Release - 2023 M04 Results — 2023-06-21

Job openings rates increased in 13 states and decreased in 2 states on the last business day of April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Hires rates decreased in 4 states and increased in 3 states. Total separations rates decreased in 9 states and increased in 5 states. Nationally, the job openings, hires, and total separations rates showed little or no change in April. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, total separations, quits, and layoffs and discharges for the total nonfarm sector and for all states and the District of Columbia. In April, job openings rates increased in 13 states, decreased in 2 states, and were little changed in 35 states and the District of Columbia. The largest increases in job openings rates occurred in Maryland (+1.4 percentage points) and in Kansas and New Mexico (+1.2 points each).