KANSAS CITY – The Mountain-Plains Information Office of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today released Missouri Job Openings and Labor Turnover – January 2023.
Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted these Missouri highlights:
Missouri had 211,000 job openings in January, compared to 220,000 job openings in December.
The job openings rate was 6.6 percent in January for Missouri, a 0.4 percent decrease since December (+7.0 percent). Nationally, the job openings rate was 6.5 percent in January and 6.8 percent in December. (See chart 1.)
The ratio of unemployed persons per job opening in Missouri was 0.4 in January which was less than the national ratio of 0.5.
The full national news release is available at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jltst.nr0.htm