KANSAS CITY – The Mountain-Plains Information Office of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released Missouri Job Openings and Labor Turnover — March 2024.
Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted these Missouri highlights:
- Missouri had 159,000 job openings in March, compared to 190,000 job openings in February.
- The job openings rate was 5.0 percent in March for Missouri, a 0.9 percent decrease since February (+5.9 percent). Nationally, the job openings rate was 5.1 percent in March and 5.3 percent in February. (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.
