This Is the Labor Market on Which Biden Is Imposing the Injection/PCR Requirement

11.7 million job openings! Twice the pre-mind-virus record

Unfilled job openings have been spiking from record to record, and in July spiked to a new record. And the number of people who quit a job remained in record territory, as companies tried to fill jobs by offering higher wages and signing bonuses and ended up hiring already employed workers away from other companies.

Total unfilled job openings, not seasonally adjusted, spiked by 1.24 million to 11.7 million openings in July, up by 52% from July 2019, according to the JOLTS report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. Seasonally adjusted, job openings spiked by 749,000 in July to a record 10.9 million openings.

This data is not based on job ads, but a survey 21,000 nonfarm business establishments and government entities by the Census Bureau, similar to the monthly jobs report:

These 11.7 million job openings are occurring amid sharply higher wages, even as 8.4 million people are deemed to be “unemployed,” according to the monthly jobs report released on Friday, and even as 12.2 million people claimed some form of unemployment compensation.

This is the conundrum of the most distorted labor market ever that is often summarized by the expression of “labor shortage,” as employers see strong demand for their products and services but have trouble hiring, though there is no shortage of people who could work.

But people, for whatever reason, cannot find work they would accept under the conditions offered, or they are still not looking for work, or will never look for work again since they have decided to retire.

Employers reported that their payrolls, at 146.8 million workers, were still down by 5.3 million from February 2020 (green line in the chart below), and households reported that the number of people working, including the self-employed, at 153.2 million, was still down by 5.6 million from February 2020 (red line), according to the BLS jobs report on Friday:

Still 6 million fewer people working than before virus madness

The aggressive efforts to fill open positions with qualified staff by offering higher wages and signing bonuses and better benefits have the effect that employers are hiring people who already have a job. To get those higher wages and the hiring bonus, they quit their old job.

For employees, this is a moment of finally feeling the pricing power of labor. For employers whose employees were poached, this creates new job openings and new headaches.

So the “quits” hit a record in April of nearly 4 million, and in July were back at the record of nearly 4 million people who quit their jobs. This shows how difficult the labor market is for employers in hiring and retaining staff.

A large growing number of quits is the signature of a strong competitive labor market that gives workers leeway to switch jobs and sends employers scrambling to hire and retain staff:

Unfilled job openings by sector.

Education and Health Services: The number of unfilled job openings spiked by a record of 281,000 openings to a record 2.0 million (seasonally adjusted), up 49% from July 2019, as educational institutions reopened and struggled mightily to hire.

Professional and Business Services: Unfilled job openings have been spiking from record to record and in July hit 1.81 million (seasonally adjusted), up 47% from July 2019:

Leisure and hospitality: Unfilled job openings at restaurants, bars, hotels, casinos, etc. has also spiked from record to record and hit 1.82 million in July (seasonally adjusted), up 83% from July 2019:

These 1.82 million unfilled job openings in Leisure and Hospitality show just how tough it is for employers in the sector to fill their open jobs, which are mostly lower-wage jobs and exposed to the public and the risks that come along with it.

In July, 1.13 million jobs were added in leisure and hospitality, according to the BLS jobs report. For reference, and outside the time frame of the JOLTS data, according to the outlier report for August, based on surveys of employers collected by mid-August, zero jobs were added in August. This leaves employment in the sector down by 1.7 million from February 2020:

Healthcare and Social Assistance: Job openings spiked by a record of 294,000 openings to a record 1.79 million in July, up by 48% from July 2019, amid reports that the dramatic surge in Covid hospitalizations has left many hospitals understaffed and added to the existing hiring woes:

Retail Trade: This includes auto dealers, grocery stores, general merchandise operations, mall stores, and all sorts of other retailers. Job openings fell after the record spike that had culminated in June, to 1.1 million, still up by 35% from July 2019:

State and Local Governments: Job openings spiked by 96,000 to a record of 936,000 openings in July, up by 58% from July 2019. This does not include the federal government, whose job openings have remained in the normal range throughout the pandemic, except for the spike around the census:

Manufacturing: Job openings ticked up to another record of 889,000, up by 98% from July 2019.

But employment in manufacturing, at 12.4 million jobs, was still down by 378,000 workers from February 2020 even as over-heated demand for goods sent companies scrambling to hire qualified people:

And manufacturing production in July hit the highest level since February 2019, despite much lower employment and the large numbers of job openings, a sign of increased automation and higher productivity:

Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities: Job openings rose to a record 516,000, up 63% from July 2019:

Construction: Job openings ticked down to 321,000 in July, about flat with July 2019, but still at the high end of the range beyond the one-off-miracle in April 2019:

Wholesale Trade: Job openings ticked up to 290,000 in July, the second highest after April, up by 36% from July 2019:

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation: Job openings jumped to 235,000, double from July 2019, but down a tad from the April spike:

There is now strong data piling up, based on weekly unemployment insurance claims from the Labor Department, about what might be causing or at least contributing to that “Labor Shortage.” Read… In States that Ended the Extra $300/Week Unemployment Benefits, People Returned to Work at Over Twice the Rate than in the Other States: Data from the Labor Department

Source: The Wolf Street

9 Comments
  1. ken says

    Looks like the geezer is playing a bluff betting all his chips that gullible Americans would likely kill their first born to keep a yob.

    I’m not betting against him because from what I have seen in the past 20 months he might be entirely right.

    If the People call his bluff and allow themselves to be fired a lot of businesses will soon be in trouble. Many of the vaxxed are getting sick and will be unreliable not to mention some yobs actually require skills which may be hard to find.

    With another 80-100 million more sitting at home tax revenues will crash meaning they’ll have to print even more monopoly currency. Retailers will not only be looking for employees the government approves of,,, they will also be looking for customers with money.

    It’s entirely possible the lunatics want to crash the whole thing,,, who knows at this stage! The only thing predictable coming from governments and crazed health nazis are their insistence on taking the killer jab and wear a mask and to hell with any wreckage.

    I’m not sure even God can correct this mess they have created without pain and misery for many.

    The modern slave.

    1. Howard T. Lewis III says

      Not ‘lunatics’. Those loyal not to the loving people of the world. Those loyal to the swine of the British Empire and Loyola.

    2. yuri says

      nice cartoon

  2. Raptar Driver says

    The government will mandate that AI robots take the place of human workers?
    The useless eaters will no longer be able to consume?

  3. GMC says

    They cook the books at the Federal Reserve, the Pentagon,NASA, NATO, they cook the statistics, the graphs, the diagrams, they cook the Polls on the elections, population, unemployment, etc. and they are even trying to Cook your Body with a poisoning fake Vaccine.
    A bigger pool of Liars has never been seen in History.

    1. nnn says

      Zionist mafia runs the show

  4. nnn says

    Idiot in the WH

  5. Howard T. Lewis III says

    The Rubber Headed Creepy Joementia Briben Biden puppet is NOT sponsoring a vaccine, nor are his stooges using an authentic virus test of any kind. They just bullied their way into office, violating Constitutional law, and following in the footsteps of the British Empire Privy Council, treasonous American freemasons, Skull Bones, and Pilgrim Society elected federal officials. You did it. The British have been programming American syndicated news in first newspapers in 1911, then newspapers and influential radio, then newspapers, radio, AND nationally syndicated television. TURN OFF YOUR TELEVISION SET. YOU watched CFR programmed television and voted like a forking lemming. You brothers and friends in the military, We of the world WANT RID of those wanting to war and kill for profit.

  6. yuri says

    the hair sniffer appointed hunter “drug tsar” after emperor gates installed life alert in the biden basement….psaki must check his diapers frequently, since he can no longer push button when diapers become full of feces…machiavelli observed that weak immoral corrupted people require incompetent leaders

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