Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey News Release — 2009-04-07

(NOTE: This release was reissued on Wednesday, April 8, 2009, to correct text references to the most recent high points for job openings and hires, and for the most recent low point for the proportion of total separations attributable to layoffs and discharges. Also, a rounding error in a text statement concerning the proportion of total separations attributable to quits in February 2009 was corrected.) On the last business day of February, there were 3.0 million job openings in the United States, and the job openings rate was 2.2 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The job openings rate and the hires rate (3.3 percent) were little changed in February, with both remaining low. The total separations rate (3.6 percent) was also essentially unchanged in February.