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On the last business day of November 2016, there were 1,033,000 job openings in the health care and social assistance industry, yet there were only 566,000 hires in this industry over the month. Despite accounting for 21 percent of the 4,972,000 private industry job openings recorded at the end of the month, health care and social assistance accounted for just 12 percent of the 4,848,000 private industry hires during the month.
Industry | Job openings | Hires | Total separations |
---|---|---|---|
Total private |
4,972,000 | 4,848,000 | 4,682,000 |
Health care and social assistance |
1,033,000 | 566,000 | 520,000 |
Professional and business services |
984,000 | 1,060,000 | 1,020,000 |
Leisure and hospitality |
725,000 | 1,041,000 | 996,000 |
Retail trade |
653,000 | 668,000 | 705,000 |
Financial activities |
332,000 | 170,000 | 157,000 |
Manufacturing |
324,000 | 275,000 | 275,000 |
Other services |
189,000 | 205,000 | 174,000 |
Transportation, warehousing, and utilities |
186,000 | 213,000 | 207,000 |
Construction |
184,000 | 335,000 | 325,000 |
Wholesale trade |
183,000 | 131,000 | 134,000 |
Educational services |
87,000 | 84,000 | 71,000 |
Information |
76,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 |
Mining and logging |
17,000 | 31,000 | 27,000 |
Two industries had more than 1 million hires during November 2016: professional and business services (1,060,000 hires) and leisure and hospitality (1,041,000 hires). Both of these hires numbers exceeded the number of job openings recorded in each industry at month's end.
These data are from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey and are seasonally adjusted. Data for the most recent month are preliminary. To learn more, see "Job Openings and Labor Turnover — November 2016" (HTML) (PDF). More charts featuring data on job openings, hires, and employment separations can be found in Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey Highlights: November 2016 (PDF). Also see more charts featuring data on job openings, hires, and separations.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Over 1 million health care and social assistance job openings on last business day of November 2016 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/over-1-million-health-care-and-social-assistance-job-openings-on-last-business-day-of-november-2016.htm (visited October 31, 2024).