Job postings on Minnesota’s state labor exchange typically slow down a bit around the holidays, starting in late November through the end of the year, and then go back up in January. So it's no big surprise that job postings took a dip in December from November (50,509 in December compared to 52,222 postings in November). We’ll have January job posting information from Minnesota’s labor exchange in early February.
Job posting numbers trending downward
Job posting numbers indicate there are fewer jobs available now versus Decembers of the past few years, or at least fewer jobs posted on Minnesota's labor exchange. The numbers below are from a point in time during the last week of December each year.
- December 2025 – 50,509
- December 2024 – 58,647
- December 2023 – 77,800
- December 2022 – 104,115
*Note that the December 2025 number includes postings on MinnesotaWorks.net, Minnesota jobs scraped from employer websites and posted on the National Labor Exchange and jobs posted via the new Post-a-Job platform.
The downward trend in job postings evidenced in the number of Minnesota labor exchange postings since 2022 aligns with the general trend revealed in the latest Job Openings & Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data and results from the Job Vacancy Survey.
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