Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey News Release — 2011-08-10

There were 3.1 million job openings on the last business day of June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The hires rate (3.1 percent) and separations rate (3.1 percent) were again little changed over the month. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the total nonfarm sector by industry and by geographic region. Job Openings The number of job openings in June was 3.1 million, essentially unchanged from May. (See table 1.) Although the number of job openings in June was 997,000 higher than in July 2009 (the series trough), it has been relatively flat since February 2011 and remains well below the 4.4 million openings when the recession began in December 2007. The number of job openings in June (not seasonally adjusted) rose from a year earlier for total nonfarm and total private.