The BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) can be used as a predictor of future job growth, and the predictive elements show that the year-over-year growth rate of unadjusted private non-farm job openings year-over-year rate of growth improved and is now in expansion. Analyst Opinion of JOLTS Data The unadjusted data this month is around average for the rate of growth seen since the beginning of 2019. In other words, JOLTS is predicting job growth in the range of 200,000 to 300,000 per month. Market expectations from Econoday were 6.200 M to 6.600 M (consensus 6.400 M) with actual at 6.6 M The graphs below use the year-over-year growth of JOLTS Job Openings - both the level of openings and rate of openings.