United States | May 2021

Nationally, across all industries, U.S. hiring continued its gradual recovery and increased 3.5% higher in April 2021 compared to last month March 2021, reaching pre-COVID highs experienced in February 2020. National hiring was 69.4% higher in April 2021 compared to last year April 2020 and these large year-over-year increases are expected as the anniversaries of hiring drops at the beginning of pandemic are reached.

United States | April 2021

After a big gain in February, US hiring held steady in March near its highest levels since the pandemic began. Hiring is now only 2.0% below its pre-COVID level. Furthermore, we’re beginning to see the recovery broaden. Twelve industries are now hiring at or above their pre-COVID level, versus nine a month ago and five two months ago.

United States | March 2021

While we haven’t quite reversed the rebounds we saw in December and January, we are continuing to see an uptick in hiring across industries. Most notably, our data shows nine industries now have hiring rates above pre-COVID levels. This is the most recovery we’ve seen to date.

United States | February 2021

January was the second consecutive seasonally-adjusted month-over-month decline in our data: hiring in the U.S. was 2.8% lower in January 2021 from December 2020, and 7.6% lower than in January 2020. We have good reason to be optimistic that this “double dip” will end soon due to the triple punch of fiscal stimulus, vaccination and better weather.

United States | January 2021

Hiring growth slowed in December, inching up 0.5% from November. We’re now the closest we’ve been to full hiring recovery since COVID first hit in February. Nine industries showed year-over-year growth in December, the largest number since February 2020. Workers continue to flock to cities where recovery is the strongest, but we’re seeing that overall the gaps in hiring recovery are shrinking.

United States | December 2020

Hiring in the U.S. during November inched up 0.8% from October 2020. Despite more modest gains, hiring is inching closer to recovery and moving at a much faster pace than projected and is now only 4.2% lower than in November 2019.

United States | November 2020

Hiring in the U.S. during October shot up 15.5% higher from September 2020. Looking at where that puts us from last year, hiring this month still remains 5.8% lower than it was in October 2019. Industries that have seen the biggest recovery since hitting lows in April include real estate and construction; and sunbelt cities continue to climb closest to recovery than other parts of the country.

United States | October 2020

Hiring in the U.S. during September dipped 0.7% from August 2020, and it remains 13.3% lower than it was in September 2019. Positive month-over-month hiring momentum is building in: Energy & Mining (+7.3%), Transportation & Logistics (2.3%), Education (2.1%), and Wellness & Fitness (+1.1%). Sunbelt and southern cities also continue to climb closer to recovery.

United States | September 2020

Hiring in the U.S. stalled out in August, and is still down -11.3% year-over-year. Our LinkedIn Hiring Rate shows that the virus has created a “ceiling” on just how much the economy can return to normal. Real estate (+10.4% M/M) and transportation & logistics (+8.4% M/M) are leading industries; and Austin (+7.4% M/M) and Denver (+4.7% M/M) are leading cities in the recovery.

United States | August 2020

Hiring in the U.S. continues to recover, and is now only 7.4% lower than it was in July 2019. The rebound in hiring has broadened significantly across cities, reflecting economic reopening occurring across a wider range of geographies. While all of the cities we track are still down year over year, 15 of the cities we track posted double-digit increases month over month.

United States | July 2020

Hiring across all industries in the U.S. is still down significantly year-over-year, measuring 39.6% lower than in June 2019. But we did see continued stability from May: national hiring in June was +0.1% higher. The industries with the most notable hiring shifts month-to-month in June were: Recreation & Travel (157.2% higher); Legal (99.3% higher); and Construction (77.2% higher).

United States | June 2020

National hiring across all industries reached an unprecedented low of -37.9% in May than the year before. This new low signals a material bottoming out since we first began to see COVID-19’s impact on hiring in March, as we only saw a 1% drop in May from April 2020.

United States | May 2020

Hiring across the US saw an unprecedented drop in April, down 24% M/M and 30% Y/Y. The least impacted industries are: hardware & networking (-8.5% Y/Y), public safety (-10.1% Y/Y), education (-15.6% Y/Y). The industries that are struggling the most are: travel & leisure (-71.1% Y/Y), real estate (-49.2% Y/Y) and construction (-45.8% Y/Y).

United States | April 2020

Gross hiring across all industries in the U.S. was 1.1% lower than in March 2019, the largest drop in LinkedIn’s hiring rate since January 2017. LinkedIn data shows a spike in demand for workers in roles that are on the frontlines of helping us navigate this pandemic, and are critical to supporting the rapidly-changing healthcare and infrastructure needs of the country. Our data also reveals the industries that have been most resilient to this pandemic.

United States | February 2020

Gross hiring in the U.S. was 5.7% higher than in January 2019. Industries with notable hiring gains month-to-month in December include: Public Safety (3.5% higher); Health Care (3.3% higher); and Wellness & Fitness (2% higher). Ahead of the 2020 census, LinkedIn Editor George Anders takes a closer look at the career pathways of more than 10,000 workers from the 2010 census.

United States | January 2020

Gross hiring in the U.S. was 9.3% higher than in December 2018, and seasonally-adjusted national hiring was 1.5% higher in December from November 2019. Industries with notable hiring gains month-to-month in December include: Finance, Corporate Services and Retail. Agriculture posted a notable dip in hiring, down 2.5% year-over-year and 3.6% month-to-month. LinkedIn Editor George Anders also took a closer look at 12 cities where average hiring rates have climbed by at least 6.5% from last year.