Number of job openings falls in Washington state - Kansas City Business Journal:

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The state survey indicates that therewere 32,6355 job openings in April, compared with 50,593 openingws six months earlier. The statr said that most of the jobopenings — more than 40 percenrt — pay less than $10 per hour. Education plays a role in getting more pay, the survey showed. About 53 percentt of jobs that were available requireda high-schook diploma or less and those jobs paid $10 an hour or For the 4 percent of job openingds that required a graduate degree, the media n wage was $29.30 per hour. Forty-twk percent of all available jobs in the statse were in King County and 10 percent were inPierce County.
The job field with the most openingd — 5,266 — was the health-care practitioners and technical Inthat field, there were openings for 2,317 registerexd nurses. The next occupations with the highest numbere of vacancies were the salesfield (3,194 vacancies) and office and administrativw support (3,045).