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Unemployed people per job opening drops

The number of unemployed people available per open job used to be seven; now it's around four.

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Jared Bernstein/BLS/JOLT
Using Bureau of Labor Statistics data, this chart shows the number of unemployed persons per job opening over the past 11 years. Since peaking in 2009, the number has been dropping steadily.

Here鈥檚 a picture out today from the BLS on the number of unemployed persons per job opening.聽 Used to be seven; now it鈥檚 around four.聽 If you think of the job search as musical chairs, there are a few more chairs out on the floor for when the music stops.*聽

But still not enough鈥揳s you can see, it was one-for-one back in late 2000鈥搉ow there was a tight labor market鈥�

*It was my old friend and former EPI colleague Jeff Wenger whom I first heard make this analogy with these data鈥eff, you out there somewhere?

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