Job Openings Ratio · Openings per JobseekerBALANCED
Are jobs easy to find?
Openings and jobseekers are roughly in balance.
And the cushion is shrinking.
1.01 openings per unemployed person — 0.01 above 1:1 parity.
Higher than 75% of all readings since 2000.
FRED / Shiller · as of Oct 2026 · computed