In addition to unemployment and employment trends, employment agencies in the survey also estimate the extent to which limited available labor makes it difficult to fill job openings in their agency district. The following response options are converted to a metric system:
- No, not significantly
- Yes, to a limited extent
- Yes, to a greater extent
- Yes, to a significant extent
The mean of all responses forms the labor shortage index. It is defined on a scale of 0 to 10, with higher values signaling greater labor shortages in the job filling process.
Data Table
| Year | Month | Index-Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | June | 4.796 |
| July | 4.932 | |
| August | 4.755 | |
| September | 4.517 | |
| October | 4.577 | |
| November | 4.83 | |
| December | 4.729 | |
| 2019 | January | 4.646 |
| February | 4.684 | |
| March | 4.628 | |
| April | 4.574 | |
| May | 4.651 | |
| June | 4.763 | |
| July | 4.413 | |
| August | 4.269 | |
| September | 4.29 | |
| October | 4.358 | |
| November | 4.397 | |
| December | 4.317 | |
| 2020 | January | 4.347 |
| February | 4.309 | |
| March | 3.894 | |
| April | 2.918 | |
| May | 2.898 | |
| June | 2.993 | |
| July | 2.789 | |
| August | 2.948 | |
| September | 2.729 | |
| October | 2.982 | |
| November | 2.946 | |
| December | 2.936 | |
| 2021 | January | 2.97 |
| February | 3.085 | |
| March | 3.086 | |
| April | 3.137 | |
| May | 3.033 | |
| June | 3.325 | |
| July | 3.553 | |
| August | 3.729 | |
| September | 3.91 | |
| October | 4.006 | |
| November | 4.006 | |
| December | 4.284 | |
| 2022 | January | 4.526 |
| February | 4.496 | |
| March | 4.454 | |
| April | 4.373 | |
| May | 4.913 | |
| June | 4.947 | |
| July | 4.802 | |
| August | 4.998 | |
| September | 4.837 | |
| October | 4.793 | |
| November | 4.835 | |
| December | 5.108 | |
| 2023 | January | 5.258 |
| February | 5.239 | |
| March | 5.237 | |
| April | 5.256 | |
| May | 5.329 | |
| June | 5.319 | |
| July | 5.287 | |
| August | 5.12 | |
| September | 4.776 | |
| October | 5.001 | |
| November | 4.782 | |
| December | 4.735 | |
| 2024 | January | 4.761 |
| February | 4.746 | |
| March | 4.822 | |
| April | 4.916 | |
| May | 4.608 | |
| June | 4.928 | |
| July | 4.673 | |
| August | 4.56 | |
| September | 4.215 | |
| October | 4.217 | |
| November | 4.127 | |
| December | 4.255 | |
| 2025 | January | 4.195 |
| February | 4.104 | |
| March | 4.11 | |
| April | 4.011 | |
| May | 4.034 | |
| June | 4.01 | |
| July | 3.691 |
Period surveyed
June 2018 until July 2025
Date of publication
2025/7/29
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The data on the IAB Labour Shortage Index are published under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)