PlainLabor

Temporal change layer

What changed in the latest JOLTS releases

PlainLabor compares consecutive stored BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey months. State totals and national industry totals can sit on different latest months - each list uses its own series. These are arithmetic openings deltas, not hiring advice or quality scores.

Download the paired rows as jolts-release-change.csv.

States - openings Nov 2025 → Dec 2025

Gained openings

  1. Ohio 266K → 287K (+21K) · rate +0.3 pp
  2. Pennsylvania 228K → 235K (+7K) · rate +0.1 pp
  3. District of Columbia 29K → 34K (+5K) · rate +0.7 pp
  4. Washington 106K → 110K (+4K) · rate +0.1 pp
  5. Missouri 125K → 128K (+3K) · rate +0.1 pp
  6. Oregon 70K → 72K (+2K) · rate +0.1 pp

Lost openings

  1. New Jersey 214K → 172K (−42K) · rate -0.9 pp
  2. Georgia 308K → 279K (−29K) · rate -0.5 pp
  3. Illinois 240K → 211K (−29K) · rate -0.5 pp
  4. Indiana 141K → 123K (−18K) · rate -0.5 pp
  5. New York 449K → 431K (−18K) · rate -0.2 pp
  6. Arizona 139K → 121K (−18K) · rate -0.5 pp
  7. Tennessee 159K → 143K (−16K) · rate -0.4 pp
  8. Texas 623K → 608K (−15K) · rate -0.1 pp
  9. Mississippi 72K → 59K (−13K) · rate -1.0 pp
  10. Florida 414K → 404K (−10K) · rate -0.1 pp

National industries - openings May 2026 → Jun 2026

Gained openings

  1. Transportation, warehousing, and utilities 295K → 392K (+97K) · rate +1.3 pp
  2. Trade, transportation, and utilities 1.3M → 1.3M (+71K) · rate +0.2 pp
  3. Financial activities 361K → 419K (+58K) · rate +0.6 pp
  4. Retail trade 725K → 774K (+49K) · rate +0.3 pp
  5. Finance and insurance 260K → 303K (+43K) · rate +0.6 pp
  6. Federal 100K → 139K (+39K) · rate +1.3 pp
  7. Durable goods manufacturing 327K → 345K (+18K) · rate +0.2 pp
  8. Information 72K → 90K (+18K) · rate +0.6 pp
  9. Real estate and rental and leasing 101K → 117K (+16K) · rate +0.6 pp
  10. Construction 291K → 305K (+14K) · rate +0.1 pp

Lost openings

  1. Health care and social assistance 1.5M → 1.3M (−147K) · rate -0.6 pp
  2. Private education and health services 1.6M → 1.5M (−133K) · rate -0.4 pp
  3. Leisure and hospitality 916K → 830K (−86K) · rate -0.4 pp
  4. Wholesale trade 239K → 165K (−74K) · rate -1.2 pp
  5. Professional and business services 1.4M → 1.3M (−71K) · rate -0.3 pp
  6. Accommodation and food services 752K → 684K (−68K) · rate -0.4 pp
  7. Nondurable goods manufacturing 191K → 136K (−55K) · rate -1.0 pp
  8. State and local government, excluding education 457K → 417K (−40K) · rate -0.3 pp
  9. Manufacturing 517K → 481K (−36K) · rate -0.2 pp
  10. State and local 713K → 684K (−29K) · rate -0.1 pp

Source: official public datasets JOLTS month-over-month release pairs · Dec 2025 Release-over-release deltas are computed from consecutive months in the PlainLabor extract.

Download the BLS JOLTS state snapshot cited on this page: jolts-labor-market-statistics.csv (CC0).

Every figure on PlainLabor is rendered from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS); no number is typed in by an editor. Month-over-month movers are arithmetic differences between consecutive stored JOLTS months. See our editorial standards and corrections policy, methodology, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-17. JOLTS figures are employer-survey openings and turnover rates for a published reference month - not job-quality rankings, hiring recommendations, or real-time vacancy postings.