Job Openings Tick Up By 57k, Nothing To Get Excited About

Tell us something we don’t know: In September, the job openings rate was 1.9 percent, little changed from August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today in its Job Openings & Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS).

This amounts to 2.5 million open positions, or about 57,000 more than August, which is, of course, nothing significant.

Education & health, hospitality, manufacturing, and professional and business services all showed month-over-month growth but no sector’s openings grew year over year.

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