KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Mountain-Plains Information Office of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released Missouri Job Openings and Labor Turnover – May 2024. Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted these Missouri highlights:
- Missouri had 152,000 job openings in May, compared to 146,000 job openings in April.
- The job openings rate was 4.7 percent in May for Missouri, a 0.1 percent increase since April (+4.6 percent). Nationally, the job openings rate was 4.9 percent in May and 4.8 percent in April. (See chart 1.)
- The ratio of unemployed persons per job opening in Missouri was 0.7, which was less than the national ratio of 0.8.
The full national news release is available at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jltst.nr0.htm.