BLS JOLTS / monthly industry context
Labor Market Dynamics Observatory
Compare job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs across JOLTS industry groups. These measures describe labor-market activity, not concentration or employer power by themselves.
- Panel
- 48 x 114
- series x monthly slots
- Coverage
- Jan 2017 - Jun 2026
- seasonally adjusted
- Observed
- 5,472
- 48 preliminary cells
- Sector bridges
- 17
- classification context only
- Openings
- 4.4%
- Jun 2026 / preliminary
- Hires
- 3.4%
- Jun 2026 / preliminary
- Quits
- 2.0%
- Jun 2026 / preliminary
- Layoffs
- 1.1%
- Jun 2026 / preliminary
Comparison passport
Industry worker flows
United States / monthly / seasonally adjusted- Industries
- 1
- same monthly frame
- Visible months
- 60
- Jul 2021 - Jun 2026
- Rate cells
- 240
- four published measures
- Source states
- 4
- 0 gaps / preliminary cells
Classification bridges
Labor flows beside sector structure
The JOLTS mining and logging aggregate is broader than the Economic Census mining sector link shown here and is not a labor-market definition.
Construction turnover is broad national industry context, not evidence about contractor concentration, local hiring options, or worker bargaining power.
Manufacturing turnover spans NAICS 31-33 nationally and does not define a product market, occupation, commuting zone, or employer market.
Trade, transportation, and utilities combines several sectors. Its labor flows are not interchangeable with any linked sector or legal market.
Information-sector flows are national industry context and do not identify digital, media, telecommunications, or local labor-market boundaries.
Financial activities combines finance and insurance with real estate. It is not equivalent to banking, insurance, or any narrower employer market.
Professional and business services combines multiple industries nationally and does not measure occupation-specific or local employer competition.
Education and health services combines distinct industries. Its turnover rates do not define hospital, school, occupation, or commuting-zone labor markets.
Leisure and hospitality combines arts, accommodation, and food services nationally. It is not a local service or labor-market definition.
Other services is a broad residual industry group and must not be interpreted as one coherent employer or product market.
Interpretation standard
Four rates, two denominators
Job openings rate
openings / (employment + openings). Published monthly by BLS for each selected industry group.
Hires rate
hires / employment. Published monthly by BLS for each selected industry group.
Quits rate
quits / employment. Published monthly by BLS for each selected industry group.
Layoffs and discharges rate
layoffs and discharges / employment. Published monthly by BLS for each selected industry group.