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Over 1 million health care and social assistance job openings on last business day of November 2016
January 12, 2017
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.
Job openings, hires, and total separations by industry, November 2016, seasonally adjusted
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 theJob Openings and Labor Turnover Surveyand 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 seemore charts featuring data on job openings, hires, and separations.
United States Department of Labor
