Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey News Release - 2022 M10 Results — 2022-11-30

The number of job openings edged down to 10.3 million on the last business day of October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the month the number of hires and total separations changed little at 6.0 million and 5.7 million, respectively. Within separations, quits (4.0 million) and layoffs and discharges (1.4 million) changed little. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the total nonfarm sector, by industry, and by establishment size class. On the last business day of October, the number of job openings edged down to 10.3 million (-353,000). The rate changed little at 6.3 percent but was 1.0 percentage points lower than its peak in March 2022. In October, job openings decreased in state and local government, excluding education (-101,000); nondurable goods manufacturing (-95,000); and federal government (-61,000).