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0.4 unemployed persons per job opening in the Dakotas, 1.7 in California, in December 2024
February 20, 2025
There were 7.6 million job openings in the United States in December 2024, a number not much different than the number of unemployed people, resulting in a ratio of 0.9 unemployed persons per job opening. North Dakota and South Dakota each had 0.4 unemployed persons per job opening and Vermont and Virginia each had 0.5 unemployed persons per job opening. There were 1.3 unemployed persons per job opening in Michigan and Nevada, and 1.7 in California.
Number of unemployed persons per job opening, and number of job openings, by state, December 2024, seasonally adjusted
State
Unemployed persons per job opening
Number of job openings
United States, total
0.9
7,600,000
Alabama
0.6
127,000
Alaska
0.8
22,000
Arizona
0.8
173,000
Arkansas
0.6
84,000
California
1.7
632,000
Colorado
1.1
128,000
Connecticut
0.8
74,000
Delaware
0.7
27,000
District of Columbia
0.7
34,000
Florida
0.8
449,000
Georgia
0.7
301,000
Hawaii
0.8
24,000
Idaho
0.9
40,000
Illinois
1.2
281,000
Indiana
0.9
164,000
Iowa
0.8
70,000
Kansas
0.8
74,000
Kentucky
0.8
143,000
Louisiana
0.8
112,000
Maine
0.7
34,000
Maryland
0.7
141,000
Massachusetts
0.8
198,000
Michigan
1.3
198,000
Minnesota
0.6
168,000
Mississippi
0.7
62,000
Missouri
0.7
176,000
Montana
0.6
28,000
Nebraska
0.6
54,000
Nevada
1.3
71,000
New Hampshire
0.6
36,000
New Jersey
1.2
193,000
New Mexico
0.8
51,000
New York
0.9
486,000
North Carolina
0.7
290,000
North Dakota
0.4
25,000
Ohio
0.9
301,000
Oklahoma
0.6
103,000
Oregon
1.0
94,000
Pennsylvania
0.8
280,000
Rhode Island
1.0
27,000
South Carolina
0.8
145,000
South Dakota
0.4
24,000
Tennessee
0.8
155,000
Texas
1.1
604,000
Utah
0.8
74,000
Vermont
0.5
16,000
Virginia
0.5
253,000
Washington
1.2
146,000
West Virginia
0.7
45,000
Wisconsin
0.6
146,000
Wyoming
0.7
15,000
Wyoming (which had 0.7 unemployed persons per job opening) had 15,000 job openings in December 2024. Vermont had 16,000. Texas (with 1.1 unemployed persons per job opening) had 604,000 job openings, while job openings in California numbered 632,000.
United States Department of Labor
