I think the reciprocal is more meaningful: number of job openings per person, employed or unemployed. A healthy number is between a hundred and a thousand, the

I think the reciprocal is more meaningful: number of job openings per person, employed or unemployed. A healthy number is between a hundred and a thousand, the number of jobs someone can potentially do (lots of opportunities). Likewise, at a 10-person company there should be hundreds of jobs that person number 11 could end up doing, corresponding to hundreds of job openings. Anything less than a hundred job openings per person means employers aren't hiring enough. Imagine meal choices per person: if there are only 2 then it is famine, a hundred to a thousand is healthy. "There are two meal choices per person" is not a bustling metropolis full of restaurants and grocery stores. It sounds more like a food desert. There are two job openings per person is similar: in a healthy bustling evonomy it should be a hundred.