More than half of establishments with job vacancies in 2021–22 had fewer than 10 employees

One-third of the nation's 11.0 million private business establishments had job vacancies at any time between August 2021 and September 2022. Of those establishments with job vacancies, 1.9 million, or 53.3 percent, had fewer than 10 employees. Establishments with 1 to 4 employees accounted for 30.6 percent of all establishments with job vacancies, while establishments with 5 to 9 employees made up 22.7 percent of the establishments with job vacancies during this period.

A total of 3.3 million private establishments with fewer than 50 employees had job vacancies from August 2021 to September 2022. This represents 90.4 percent of all private establishments that had job vacancies over that period. The number of private establishments with 50 or more employees that had job vacancies was 348,000, or 9.6 percent of all private establishments with job vacancies.

From August 2021 to September 2022, a total of 1.1 million establishments with 1 to 4 employees had job vacancies. These 1.1 million establishments were 15.3 percent of all private establishments with 1 to 4 employees. During the same time period, 930,000 establishments with 20 or more employees had vacancies. This represented 80.2 percent of all private establishments with 20 or more employees.

These data are from the Business Response Survey. For more information, see "Telework, Hiring, and Vacancies — 2022 Data From The Business Response Survey" and more charts and tables on telework, hiring, and vacancies. An establishment is an economic unit that produces goods or provides services, usually at a single physical location, and that is engaged in one or predominantly one type of economic activity, for example, a factory, a mine, a store, or an office.