Metaintro Hiring Demand Index
A free monthly reading of US hiring demand.
No edition has been published yet. Each edition appears two to three days before a BLS JOLTS release, with its headline, 95% interval and coverage grade.
Against the official numbers
Our month against BLS JOLTS.
Month-end to month-end change in open postings at tracked employers, seasonally adjusted, beside the change in JOLTS job openings. Every estimate we log before a JOLTS release is scored in public on the track record.
| Month | Metaintro | BLS JOLTS |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | -5.1% | Not yet released |
| September 2026 | +2.9% | +4.6% (preliminary) |
| August 2026 | -1.8% | -2.0% |
Sources: Metaintro; BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
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How to cite
Free to reuse, including the CSV and the feeds, with attribution to the Metaintro Hiring Demand Index and a link to the edition.
Metaintro, "Metaintro Hiring Demand Index." https://www.metaintro.com/data/hiring-demand/latest
Link: https://www.metaintro.com/data/hiring-demand/latest
Data and feeds
- Monthly series (CSV), one row per edition, as first published.
- RSS feed and JSON feed of every edition.
Daily and hourly data
The monthly headline is free. The detail is not.
The daily edition at 07:00 ET breaks demand down by occupation, state, metro and listed company, and an hourly file follows postings at listed companies. Both are for subscribers. Read the data dictionary to see every column first.