KANSAS CITY – The Mountain-Plains Information Office of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today released Missouri Job Openings and Labor Turnover – December 2025.
Acting Regional Commissioner Jerome Watters noted these Missouri highlights:
- Missouri had 136,000 job openings in December, compared to 137,000 job openings in November.
- The job openings rate for Missouri was 4.3 percent in December, unchanged from the previous month. Nationally, the job openings rate was 3.9 percent in December and 4.2 percent in November (See chart 1.)
- The ratio of unemployed persons per job opening in Missouri was 0.9, which was less than the national ratio of 1.1.
