Help Wanted: All Across Wyoming, All Across the Country

Many of you business owners out there are familiar with having a shortage of workers. Staffing issues are not unique to any one industry or any one area of the country; the sting of this labor shortage can be felt from Washington to Maine, and from fast food restaurants to accounting firms.

By the numbers: Wyoming has 46 available workers for every 100 open jobs, putting our state in the “Most Severely impacted” category according to a labor shortage study conducted by the U.S. Chamber. Here’s where we stand in these other categories:

• Job Openings: 19,000

• Unemployed Workers: 8,739

• Labor Force Participation Rate: 64.5

• Unemployment Rate: 2.9

• Quit Rate: 3.1

• Hiring Rate: 4.5