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In 2023, the annual average job openings level was 9.4 million, a decrease of 1.8 million from 2022. The annual average job openings rate—that is, job openings as a percent of total employment plus job openings—was 5.7 percent in 2023, compared to 6.8 percent in 2022. In 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the rate was 4.5 percent.
read full article »The unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percentage point to 3.9 percent in February 2024, and the number of unemployed people increased by 334,000 to 6.5 million. These measures are higher than a year earlier, when the jobless rate was 3.6 percent and the number of unemployed people was 6.0 million.
You don’t have to be a mathematician to work in a math occupation. In fact, of the roughly 102,000 new jobs projected in math occupations from 2022 to 2032, most are in occupations other than mathematicians. In celebration of Pi Day, let's take a look at some BLS data on these occupations.
Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 275,000 in February 2024. The February increase was above the average monthly gain of 230,000 over the prior 12 months. Since February 2023, the over-the-month change in employment has ranged from 146,000 to 303,000. Total nonfarm payroll employment has risen from 155.1 million in February 2023 to 157.8 million in February 2024.
Equal Pay Day, which symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year, is on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. Women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median weekly earnings of $1,005 in 2023. That was 83.6 percent of the $1,202 median for men who were full-time wage and salary workers. Women had lower median weekly earnings than men in most of the occupations for which we have earnings data for both women and men.