Hurricane Helene’s impact temporarily suppressed construction industry job openings by 40,000 in September, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
September had 288,000 construction job openings, compared with 328,000 openings in August.
Meanwhile, year-over-year job openings were down 31.8%.
“Hurricane Helene, which did not dissipate until Sept. 29, temporarily suppressed the number of open construction positions across the Southeast,” ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu said in a statement. “Because the BLS measures job openings on the final day of the relevant month, the data in this Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey release are almost certainly distorted.”
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