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Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 2026

Construction

Monthly job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs for Construction - national aggregates from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.

305K
Job openings
323K
Hires
1.7%
Quits rate
15th
Of 27 by openings

BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-230000 Construction

305K openings · 3.5% rate · 323K hires · Jun 2026

  • OPEN 305K
  • RATE 3.5%
  • RANK 19th
  • HIRE 323K
  • QUIT 1.7%
  • LAY 167K
  • YOY +36.2%
  • PHOTO Government

Openings-rate peers

Photo peer: Government (3.4%)

Government3.4%Manufacturing3.7%State & local3.2%Mining & logging3.2%Construction (this)3.5%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

Construction is 19th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Government →

Corpus placement

Where Construction sits among national openings

Highlighted bar is Construction. Rank uses the same national JOLTS supersector pool as the passport (Jun 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 (3.5%).

1. Private education & healt…1475K2. Health care & social assi…1347K3. Trade, transportation, & …1330K4. Professional & business s…1304K5. Leisure & hospitality830K6. Government823K7. Retail trade774K8. Accommodation & food serv…684K9. State & local684K15. Construction305K
National job openings by NAICS supersector · Jun 2026

Construction sits at 15th of 27 in the full national board; the chart shows the top 9 plus this sector.

Construction openings rose 36.2% 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.

0K200K400K600K800K 20192020202120222023202420252026 305K323K HiresOpenings

Nearest openings-rate peers

ABS(openings_rate) across national industries, not the fixed volume-leader strip.

Government
Openings: 823K Rate: 3.4%
Manufacturing
Openings: 481K Rate: 3.7%
State and local
Openings: 684K Rate: 3.2%
Mining and logging
Openings: 20K Rate: 3.2%
Private educational services
Openings: 128K Rate: 3.1%
Information
Openings: 90K Rate: 3.1%

Nearest quits-rate peers

ABS(quits_rate) nationwide, a second lattice independent of openings-rate peers.

Private education and health services
Quits rate: 1.7% Openings: 1.5M
Nondurable goods manufacturing
Quits rate: 1.6% Openings: 136K
Health care and social assistance
Quits rate: 1.9% Openings: 1.3M
Manufacturing
Quits rate: 1.5% Openings: 481K
Durable goods manufacturing
Quits rate: 1.5% Openings: 345K
Wholesale trade
Quits rate: 1.5% Openings: 165K

For informational purposes only; this page does not constitute professional advice. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Data sourced from official public datasets for Construction (19th of 27 by openings rate (3.5%); volume 15th of 27). See our methodology.

Retrieved and formatted by PlainLabor · vintage 2026-08-17 · reference month Jun 2026