KANSAS CITY – The Mountain-Plains Information Office of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its report of Missouri Job Openings and Labor Turnover – January 2024.
Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted these Missouri highlights:
Missouri had 205,000 job openings in January 2024, compared to 166,000 openings in December.
The job openings rate was 6.4 percent in January for Missouri, a 1.2 percent increase since December (+5.2 percent). Nationally, the job openings rate was 5.3 percent in both January and December. (See chart 1.)
The ratio of unemployed persons per job opening in Missouri was 0.5, which was less than the national ratio of 0.7.
