Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey News Release — 2021-07-07

The number of job openings was little changed at 9.2 million on the last business day of May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Hires were little changed at 5.9 million. Total separations decreased to 5.3 million. Within separations, the quits rate decreased to 2.5 percent. The layoffs and discharges rate, while little changed over the month, hit a series low of 0.9 percent. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the total nonfarm sector, by industry, by four geographic regions, and by establishment size class. On the last business day of May, the job openings level changed little at 9.2 million. The job openings rate was unchanged at 6.0 percent. Job openings increased in other services (+109,000), state and local government education (+46,000), and educational services (+35,000).