Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey News Release — 2014-02-11

There were 4.0 million job openings on the last business day of December, little changed from November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The hires rate (3.2 percent) and separations rate (3.2 percent) were little changed in December. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the nonfarm sector by industry and by geographic region. There were 4.0 million job openings in December, little changed from November. The number of openings was little changed in total private and decreased in government. The number of job openings decreased in health care and social assistance; arts, entertainment, and recreation; and state and local government. The Midwest region experienced a decline in job openings in December. (See table 1.) The number of job openings (not seasonally adjusted) increased over the year for total nonfarm and total private and was little changed for government.