The first-ever state-level Job Openings and Labor Turnover report offers a glimpse at where labor shortages are the most and least prevalent.
Labor shortages are most prevalent in Nebraska and least prevalent in Hawaii, according to a first-of-its-kind Labor Department report published Friday as employers across the U.S. struggle to fill job openings.
That meant fewer workers “were displaced during the pandemic,” Slone told MarketWatch. “People were able to continue to work under health safeguards rather than simply being sent home.” All five states’ governors issued stay-at-home orders during the pandemic. They also did not cut off jobless residents from collecting enhanced unemployment benefits before they expired in early September.
Kentucky has the highest quit rate among all states The report published Friday also revealed that the “Great Resignation” trend is most prevalent in Kentucky, where the job-quit rate was 4.5% in August. The national job-quit rate that month hit a record high of 2.9%. Since there were 167,000 job openings in August and 85,000 people were unemployed, Aull said, that naturally “entices people to quit jobs to take other jobs and to move around a lot.”
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