Georgia is the state with the fourth fastest-falling employment quit rate in America, a new study has found.
Resume specialists ResumeBlaze analyzed U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data on the level of quit rates nationwide during July 2022 and July 2023 to reveal which states have seen the largest decrease in people quitting their jobs.
Across America, quit rates fell by 11.54% between July 2022 and July 2023, from 2.6 to 2.3. This means around one of every 43 employed people quit their jobs during July 2023. Approximately 20 states performed better than the national average, with some quit rates falling by over 30%.
Despite having the largest quit rate in the country in July 2022, Georgia is now the state with the fourth fastest-falling quit rate. While July 2022 saw one in every 25 workers leave a job, these numbers have fallen by 28.21%. During July 2023, around 135,000 quits were reported, representing a huge drop from last year and securing Georgia’s place among America’s fastest-falling quit rates.
The study found that Massachusetts has the fastest-falling quit rate in the country. Between July 2022 and July 2023, the quit rate fell from 2.5 to 1.3, a huge 48% decline. During July 2023, around 51,000 workers quit their jobs state-wide, a dramatic fall from the 93,000 employees who left their jobs during the same month in 2022. Massachusetts also had the lowest quit rate of any state in the country in July 2023, with just one in every 76 employees quitting their job.
Missouri has the secondfastest-falling quit rate in the country. While around 100,000 workers quit their job in July 2022, the number fell to 70,000 in July 2023. These figures saw the quit rate drop from 3.4 to 2.3, representinga fall of 32.35%.
With quit rates falling by over 30%, Kansas secured third spot in the study. The quit rate sat at 3.1 in July 2022, with 44,000 workers leaving employment during this month. During the same month of 2023, the rate had…
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