Job Openings Little Changed From February

Washington, DC, May 12, 2015—There were five million job openings on the last business day of March, little changed from 5.1 million in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.

Hires were little changed at 5.1 million in March, and separations were little changed at 5.0 million. Within separations, the quits rate was 2%, and the layoffs and discharges rate was 1.3%; both rates were little different from the previous month.