Employer Costs for Employee Compensation. Mass Layoffs (Monthly) Real Earnings. Skip to Content US Department of Labor A to Z Index | FAQs | About BLS | Contact Us U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Follow Us | What's New | Release Calendar | Site Map Economic News Release Real Earnings Table of Contents The PDF version of the news release. Productivity and Costs. The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine® 02 Apr. 2014 March loss offsets February gain and leaves Q1’14 basically unchanged March losses occurred in 18 of the 22 Standard Occupation Codes Download the complimentary National Historical Table. Online advertised vacancies were down 292,100 to 4,894,100 in March, according to The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine® (HWOL) Data Series, released today. The February Supply/Demand rate stands at 2.0 unemployed for each vacancy with a total of 5.3 million more unemployed workers than the number of advertised vacancies. “The March decline largely offsets the February gain and left the first quarter of 2014 with a minor drop of 50,000.
It’s not the start of the year we were hoping for,” said June Shelp, Vice President at The Conference Board. “The flat trend that we saw throughout last year seems to have continued into the first quarter of this year.” March Changes for States Most States saw their large February gains offset by the March losses. The Midwest lost 78,900 in March. Office of Unemployment Insurance, Employment & Training Administration (ETA) - U.S. Department of Labor.