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Projected U.S. Job Openings: Women and Men

Projected openings a year across all occupations, by projection, split by each occupation's current mix, thousands

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Openings: Employment Projections, the average a year over the ten-year projection, counting new jobs and replacements for workers who retire or change occupation. Women and men: Palanor calculation, openings times each sex's share of the occupation's workers in the Current Population Survey for the projection's base year, so they show who would fill the openings if each occupation hires in today's mix. The CPS has no separate rows for restaurant cooks, heavy truck drivers or security guards; their shares are for all cooks, all truck drivers and guards with gambling surveillance officers. Here the split uses the women's share of all employed people, the workforce's overall mix. Each bar is one projection, labelled by its base year, the first year of its ten-year horizon.

Each BLS projection's total openings a year, split in the workforce's overall mix. A change from one bar to the next is a change in the projection, not hiring that happened.