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See resignation data: National and Charlotte numbers tell the Great Resignation story

By Hannah Lang and Gavin Off
Office life has changed a great deal since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Office life has changed a great deal since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Wes Thompson Getty Images

In November 2021, more than 4.5 million workers quit their job across the country — the highest number on record since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started recording the data.

Sydney Idzikowski is a data and research coordinator at the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute who’s studied the trend. The bureau doesn’t track such rates at the local level, so Idzikowski used national rates to gauge the impact in Charlotte. She applied monthly nationwide rates by industry to local employment estimates.

It adds up to about 32,268 people who quit their job in the Charlotte in February 2022, she said. The trend is stabilizing “at a high level,” Idzikowski said.

See national and local resignation numbers in the charts below.

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Hannah Lang
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Hannah Lang covered banking, finance and economic equity for The Charlotte Observer from 2021 to 2023. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Triangle Business Journal and the Greensboro News & Record. She studied business journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and grew up in the same town as her alma mater.
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Gavin Off
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Gavin Off was previously the Charlotte Observer’s data reporter, since 2011. He also worked as a data reporter at the Tulsa World and at Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C. His journalism, including his data analysis and reporting for the investigative series Big Poultry, won multiple national journalism awards.
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