NEW YORK, March 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones
Indices (S&P DJI) has released the latest data for the S&P
500 LinkUp Jobs Index. The index, which measures the change in open
job listings at S&P 500 companies, shows that available
positions increased year-to-date by 3.8% through February 21, 2022.
Sector Analysis
Utilities, Energy and Financials
companies continue to increase job listings at the fastest rate in
2022, with 20.1%, 17.4% and 16.3% increases respectively. In terms
of market performance, Energy also continues to be the only sector
in the S&P 500 to generate positive returns this year at 19.9%.
Consumer Staples companies have increased job listings at the
lowest rate in both the short and longer term with a 0.19% YTD
increase in 2022 and a 1.65% decrease in February 2022.
Historical Figures (thru February 21,
2022)
Sector
|
MTD
|
YTD
|
1
Year
|
2021
|
YTD Total Stock
Return (2/21)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
S&P 500 LinkUp
Jobs Index
|
0.31%
|
3.78%
|
47.89%
|
56.47%
|
(S&P 500)
-9.50%
|
Communications
Services
|
2.74%
|
6.03%
|
104.70%
|
142.16%
|
-15.17%
|
Consumer
Discretionary
|
-1.06%
|
1.44%
|
24.66%
|
28.19%
|
-14.60%
|
Consumer
Staples
|
-1.65%
|
0.19%
|
16.01%
|
24.38%
|
-2.01%
|
Energy
|
3.27%
|
17.35%
|
161.18%
|
169.04%
|
19.92%
|
Financials
|
3.11%
|
16.27%
|
120.45%
|
126.08%
|
-0.02%
|
Health
Care
|
-0.70%
|
2.14%
|
40.32%
|
50.32%
|
-9.70%
|
Industrials
|
3.76%
|
9.37%
|
97.45%
|
100.00%
|
-7.92%
|
Information
Technology
|
0.29%
|
0.60%
|
74.22%
|
113.66%
|
-13.22%
|
Materials
|
1.70%
|
4.57%
|
57.43%
|
81.28%
|
-8.74%
|
Real
Estate
|
1.27%
|
8.40%
|
108.82%
|
108.38%
|
-13.99%
|
Utilities
|
4.88%
|
20.14%
|
108.93%
|
110.21%
|
-7.54%
|
The S&P 500 LinkUp Jobs Indices are published weekly and are
calculated using the sum of the weekly average job count from each
S&P 500 company provided by LinkUp, an employment-focused data
company that tracks and aggregates daily job openings directly from
more than 60,000 company websites globally.
LinkUp's data are extensively quality checked during the actual
gathering of data from individual company job sites to confirm
integrity and accuracy of the number of job openings.
Historical data for the S&P 500 LinkUp Jobs Indices can be
accessed and downloaded from the index webpage.
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