Careeronaut Insights
The live US job market, in numbers.
Reproducible studies built from Careeronaut's live job index and primary public sources including USAJOBS and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Every published number passes a data-quality check, and chart data can be downloaded as PNG or CSV.
Nearly 1 in 3 direct-employer job ads has been live for at least two months
Careeronaut rechecked 29,281 vacancies directly on employer hiring systems. 8,203 were still live at least 60 days after their original posting date.
Read the study- 02industry-quits/
Information-sector workers quit at one-quarter the rate of hospitality workers
Fresh BLS data shows the June 2026 quit rate at 1.1% in Information and 4.2% in leisure and hospitality. Across nine of 11 major sectors, quitting is below its April 2022 level.
Read the study - 03job-security-index/
Oklahoma has America’s strongest job-security market
Careeronaut’s analysis of job openings, hiring, layoffs, unemployment and payroll growth places Oklahoma, Georgia and North Carolina at the top of the 2026 American Job Security Index.
Read the study - 04senior-workforce/
The 55+ workforce shrunk 3.5x faster than the rest of America since 2019
BLS data through April 2026 shows the 55+ labor force participation rate has fallen from 40.5% in July 2019 to 37.1% today, a sharper relative drop than the country as a whole. The 'seniors rejoining the workforce' narrative is not what the official numbers show.
Read the study - 05tech-recession/
The US Information sector has lost 342,000 jobs since November 2022 — even as total US nonfarm employment hit an all-time record in April 2026
Cross-referencing BLS payroll data, Layoffs.fyi's 645,000+ tracked tech layoffs since 2022, Challenger Gray's monthly job-cut reports, Anthropic's Economic Index of AI task exposure, and Indeed's software-developer postings index — one story comes out the other side: tech is in its own recession that the rest of the US economy doesn't share, and AI is increasingly cited as the cause.
Read the study - 06job-hugging/
Workers in California, New York and Massachusetts have stopped quitting — 'job hugging' has driven quit rates 36-42% below their 2022 peak
Fresh BLS data shows the national quit rate has collapsed to 2.0% — the lowest sustained level since 2014. In the country's wealthiest states, it's lower still. Only one state, South Dakota, has more workers quitting than at the height of the Great Resignation.
Read the study
Methodology
Each study freezes a dated snapshot from Careeronaut's job index or a named primary API. Methodology and limitations are published inline; supporting PNG and CSV downloads sit on each study's page.
Working on a story? The Careeronaut team can share full methodology, raw data, or run a custom slice on request: press@careeronaut.com.
Subscribe to Careeronaut Insights via RSS