Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey News Release — 2011-06-07

There were 3.0 million job openings on the last business day of April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The job openings rate (2.2 percent), the hires rate (3.0 percent), and the separations rate (2.9 percent) were essentially unchanged in April. 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 April was 3.0 million, little changed from 3.1 million in March. (See table 1.) After increasing in February, job openings have been flat. Job openings have been around 3.0 million for three consecutive months; the last three-month period with levels this high was September�November 2008.