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Job openings by industry, March 2008

May 20, 2008

On the last business day of March, there were 3.7 million job openings in the United States.

Job openings by industry, March 2008
[Chart data—TXT]

Four industries each had over 500,000 job openings: professional and business services; education and health services; trade, transportation, and utilities; and leisure and hospitality. In contrast, there were 94,000 job openings in construction in March.

These data are from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. Learn more about job openings, hires, and separations in "Job Openings and Labor Turnover: March 2008" (PDF) (HTML), news release USDL 08-0669.

SUGGESTED CITATION

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Job openings by industry, March 2008 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2008/may/wk3/art02.htm (visited March 29, 2024).

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