{"id":4208,"date":"2022-06-29T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ziprecruiter.com\/blog\/?p=36811"},"modified":"2022-06-29T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:13:00","slug":"californians-are-rejoining-the-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/californians-are-rejoining-the-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians Are Rejoining the Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of the end of April, the U.S. labor market was still steaming hot. There were about 63% more job openings than before the pandemic, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/jolts.nr0.htm\">JOLTS Report<\/a>. And, with 4.4 million people quitting their jobs in one month, labor market churn was still high. In May, the economy added a robust 390k net new jobs, with 330k people joining the labor force, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\">Jobs Report<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Labor market conditions vary across the country, however, and this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/laus.nr0.htm\">State Employment and Unemployment Report<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/jltst.nr0.htm\">State Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey Report<\/a> show us which states are making the strongest contributions to the labor force recovery and job creation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>West Virginia recorded the highest employment growth rate (1.6%) across all states thanks to strong gains in the public sector.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Relative to its size, West Virginia enjoyed the highest employment gain (8,800 net new jobs or 1.6% growth), thanks to solid gains in the public sector (8,500).<\/li>\n<li>Alabama (+0.6%), South Carolina (+0.6%), and Texas (+0.6%) were a step behind West Virginia in employment growth.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Strong gains in leisure and hospitality (27,600), and professional and business services (15,300) fueled the employment growth in Texas, which added 74,200 net jobs in May.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-map\" data-src=\"visualisation\/10491855?853374\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Californians are rejoining the labor force in high numbers.&nbsp;<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>California\u2019s labor force grew 0.5% in May\u2014the fastest rate of growth in the nation\u2014with 104k people getting back to work.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Though the state&#8217;s labor force participation rate (62.1%) is still below its pre-pandemic level (62.8%), California is on track to make a full labor force recovery in less than 6 months at the current rate. About 53k Californians have entered the labor force every month on average since January. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-map\" data-src=\"visualisation\/10491831?853374\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kentucky has the highest number of available jobs relative to its size across the nation right now, offering plenty of opportunities to job seekers.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>With an 8.5% job openings rate, the state boasts plenty of job opportunities for its residents. However, hiring is yet to catch up. The gap between the state&#8217;s job openings rate (8.5%) and hiring rate (5.7%) implies that the firms are struggling to fill vacancies quickly.<\/li>\n<li>This is not surprising since wage growth in Kentucky (5.0%) is still relatively low and doesn\u2019t yet reflect the state&#8217;s tight job market.<\/li>\n<li>The results of ZipRecruiter\u2019s monthly Job Seeker Confidence Survey provide an explanation for what might be going on.&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>In a tight labor market, 48% of job seekers surveyed said that they had already secured at least one job offer.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Among those, almost half\u201449.7%\u2014said they had rejected an offer, with 26.7% citing \u201cnot enough pay\u201d as the main reason for doing so. In other words, when wages only grow slowly, on average, in a tight labor market, job seekers take their time to explore the range of opportunities on offer, and only accept the most attractive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/10440425?94099\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of the end of April, the U.S. labor market was still steaming hot. There were about 63% more job openings than before the pandemic, according to the JOLTS Report. And, with 4.4 million people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-market-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}