FX.co ★ US Job Openings Beat Forecasts

In April 2025, job vacancies in the United States saw a notable increase, climbing by 191,000 to reach a total of 7.391 million, surpassing the market's anticipated figure of 7.10 million. This rise was mainly observed in sectors such as arts, entertainment, and recreation (+43K), mining and logging (+10K), retail trade (+46K), transportation, warehousing, and utilities (+19K), information (+27K), real estate and rental and leasing (+10K), professional and business services (+171K), as well as private education and health services (+115K). Conversely, there was a decline in job vacancies within the accommodation and food services sector (-135K) and in state and local government, education (-51K). Regionally, the Northeast experienced an increase of 116,000 job openings, the South 127,000, and the West 33,000, while the Midwest saw a decrease of 85,000. The figures for hires and total separations remained relatively stable at 5.6 million and 5.3 million, respectively. Of those separations, the numbers for quits stood at 3.2 million, and layoffs and discharges recorded at 1.8 million, showed little variation.