There were 101 job openings for every 100 people looking for work (August 2026)
Employers advertised 7.1 million openings in August 2026, while 7.0 million people were unemployed and looking. Openings outnumbered job seekers, which is the shape of a labor market where workers have room to move. Civic Forecast calculation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey and the Current Population Survey, using the most recent month both had published.
Induced by API Automations for Civic Forecast from federal open data. Each finding names the datasets it was computed from. How this is calculated.