Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 2026
Construction
Monthly job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs for Construction - national aggregates from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
- 326K
- Job openings
- 366K
- Hires
- 1.9%
- Quits rate
- 14th
- Of 27 by openings
BLS JOLTS turnover passport
Series extract JOLTS-230000 Construction
326K openings · 3.8% rate · 366K hires · Jul 2026
- OPEN 326K
- RATE 3.8%
- RANK 19th
- HIRE 366K
- QUIT 1.9%
- LAY 158K
- YOY +6.9%
- PHOTO Federal
Openings-rate peers
Photo peer: Federal (3.9%)
Construction is 19th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Federal →
Corpus placement
Where Construction sits among national openings
Highlighted bar is Construction. Rank uses the same national JOLTS supersector pool as the passport (Jul 2026); high openings volume is not a quality score - by openings rate this sector is 19th of 27. Signature: 19th of 27 by openings rate (3.8%).
Construction sits at 14th of 27 in the full national board; the chart shows the top 9 plus this sector.
Construction openings rose 6.9% year over year
National monthly levels from BLS JOLTS (thousands). Openings and hires are separate series; their gap is not a backlog of unfilled postings.
Nearest openings-rate peers
ABS(openings_rate) across national industries, not the fixed volume-leader strip.
Nearest quits-rate peers
ABS(quits_rate) nationwide, a second lattice independent of openings-rate peers.
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Data sourced from official public datasets for Construction (19th of 27 by openings rate (3.8%); volume 14th of 27). See our methodology.
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