The spike in COVID-19 cases is expected to lead to slower employment growth in the nation based on the drop in job postings recorded in Chmura’s Real Time Intelligence (RTI).
As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued in the United States, Chmura has been tracking volume changes in its RTI job postings data. We are pleased to announce that we are now making data for all states publicly available.
All states have improved compared to where they were early in the pandemic, but similar to the national level, the recovery appears to have paused recently.
Had the pandemic never occurred, what would the job postings volume over the last few months look like, and how much lower is it now because of the pandemic?
In this blog, we compare COVID-19 Economic Vulnerability Index to real-time online jobs data. The result? Overall, the decline in job ad volume follows our Vulnerability Index very closely,