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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 1/5 selected
Measure

Analytical view

All four rate panels

Jul 2021 to Jun 2026 / 60 monthly slots
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

Independent shared-rate panels

Four labor-flow histories

Job openings rateopenings / (employment + openings)
Hires ratehires / employment
Quits ratequits / employment
Layoffs and discharges ratelayoffs and discharges / employment
Jul 2021Jun 2026
Mining + logging110099

Classification bridges

Labor flows beside sector structure

These links connect broad JOLTS groups to overlapping Economic Census sectors for navigation. Aggregates that span sectors remain explicitly many-to-many.
JOLTS 110099Mining + logging

The JOLTS mining and logging aggregate is broader than the Economic Census mining sector link shown here and is not a labor-market definition.

JOLTS 230000Construction

Construction turnover is broad national industry context, not evidence about contractor concentration, local hiring options, or worker bargaining power.

JOLTS 300000Manufacturing

Manufacturing turnover spans NAICS 31-33 nationally and does not define a product market, occupation, commuting zone, or employer market.

JOLTS 400000Trade + transport

Trade, transportation, and utilities combines several sectors. Its labor flows are not interchangeable with any linked sector or legal market.

JOLTS 510000Information

Information-sector flows are national industry context and do not identify digital, media, telecommunications, or local labor-market boundaries.

JOLTS 510099Financial activities

Financial activities combines finance and insurance with real estate. It is not equivalent to banking, insurance, or any narrower employer market.

JOLTS 540099Professional services

Professional and business services combines multiple industries nationally and does not measure occupation-specific or local employer competition.

JOLTS 600000Education + health

Education and health services combines distinct industries. Its turnover rates do not define hospital, school, occupation, or commuting-zone labor markets.

JOLTS 700000Leisure + hospitality

Leisure and hospitality combines arts, accommodation, and food services nationally. It is not a local service or labor-market definition.

JOLTS 810000Other services

Other services is a broad residual industry group and must not be interpreted as one coherent employer or product market.

Turnover is not monopsony.JOLTS industry rates describe national labor demand and worker-flow activity in broad BLS industry groups. They do not measure employer concentration, monopsony power, wages, bargaining power, job quality, local labor-market conditions, worker substitutability, a legal labor market, or the competitive cause of a change.Inspect relationship contract

Interpretation standard

Four rates, two denominators

The job openings rate uses employment plus openings as its denominator. Hires, quits, and layoffs and discharges use employment. Rates may be compared across published industry groups within the same measure, but different measures must not be added together or treated as a common flow balance.
01

Job openings rate

openings / (employment + openings). Published monthly by BLS for each selected industry group.

02

Hires rate

hires / employment. Published monthly by BLS for each selected industry group.

03

Quits rate

quits / employment. Published monthly by BLS for each selected industry group.

04

Layoffs and discharges rate

layoffs and discharges / employment. Published monthly by BLS for each selected industry group.