According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 3.4 million job openings on the last business day of December, an increase of "39 percent since the end of the recession in June 2009." This also signals an increase since the end of November, when the number of job openings totaled 3.1 million. The BLS Editor's Desk notes, "The job openings rate—2.5 percent in December—has trended upward since the end of the recession in June 2009, when the job openings rate was 1.8 percent."