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Decline in online job numbers slows

June 29, 2009

U.S. online advertised jobs fell by 66,700 in June from the previous month; however, the numbers remain relatively stable compared with last year, according to The Conference Board's measure of online help-wanted ads released today.

The number of online jobs advertised fell 71,000 between January and June, according to The Conference Board. That compared with a decline of 1.2 million from August 2008 to January.

"We are not out of the woods yet, but job demand has definitely stabilized since January," said Gad Levanon, senior economist at The Conference Board. "Although there is some bounce in the monthly numbers, the number of online advertised vacancies has held steady in the last three months (up a modest 35,000). Across the U.S., it is an increasingly mixed picture with some states, like Florida and Georgia, showing some modest gains, others such as New York, North Carolina holding steady, and some, like California and Pennsylvania, yet to show real improvement."

The total number of online jobs ads in June was almost 3.3 million.