Tracker
Job Openings
Unfilled jobs employers are actively trying to fill.
7.6M
Thousands · latest, Apr 2026
vs prior month ▲ 10.6%
vs year ago ▲ 7.3%
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Source: FRED · JTSJOL · series · Dec 2000 to Apr 2026
· latest-revised
Reading it. Counts unfilled positions employers are actively recruiting for. A read on labor demand; paired with unemployment it gauges how tight the job market is. History begins December 2000.
About the bands. Shaded spans are NBER-dated US recessions, drawn as factual overlays. They mark when the economy contracted, not why. Lining an event or policy up with a move on this chart is not evidence that it caused the move.