Key takeaways
- Employers are posting millions of open jobs while hiring sits at its slowest pace in over a decade.
- Employers listed 7.523 million open jobs in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on November 3, 2026.
- Openings rose 333,000 to their highest level since May, and the openings rate reached 4.5%.
Employers are posting millions of open jobs while hiring sits at its slowest pace in over a decade, and that contradiction is sending mixed signals to SPY investors caught between steady paychecks and a Fed that just made hiring more
