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Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 2026

Durable goods manufacturing

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

345K
Job openings
209K
Hires
1.5%
Quits rate
14th
Of 27 by openings

BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-320000 Durable goods manufacturing

345K openings · 4.2% rate · 209K hires · Jun 2026

  • OPEN 345K
  • RATE 4.2%
  • RANK 16th
  • HIRE 209K
  • QUIT 1.5%
  • LAY 55K
  • YOY +42.6%
  • PHOTO Finance & insurance

Openings-rate peers

Photo peer: Finance and insurance (4.3%)

Finance & insurance4.3%State & local government, ex…4.1%Trade, transportation, & uti…4.4%Financial activities4.4%Durable goods manufacturing …4.2%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

Durable goods manufacturing is 16th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Finance and insurance →

Corpus placement

Where Durable goods manufacturing sits among national openings

Highlighted bar is Durable goods manufacturing. 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 16th of 27. Signature: 16th of 27 by openings rate (4.2%).

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 & local684K14. Durable goods manufactur…345K
National job openings by NAICS supersector · Jun 2026

Durable goods manufacturing sits at 14th of 27 in the full national board; the chart shows the top 9 plus this sector.

Durable goods manufacturing openings rose 42.6% 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 345K209K HiresOpenings

Nearest openings-rate peers

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

Finance and insurance
Openings: 303K Rate: 4.3%
State and local government, excluding education
Openings: 417K Rate: 4.1%
Trade, transportation, and utilities
Openings: 1.3M Rate: 4.4%
Financial activities
Openings: 419K Rate: 4.4%
Other services
Openings: 281K Rate: 4.5%
Accommodation and food services
Openings: 684K Rate: 4.6%

Nearest quits-rate peers

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

Manufacturing
Quits rate: 1.5% Openings: 481K
Wholesale trade
Quits rate: 1.5% Openings: 165K
Nondurable goods manufacturing
Quits rate: 1.6% Openings: 136K
Private education and health services
Quits rate: 1.7% Openings: 1.5M
Construction
Quits rate: 1.7% Openings: 305K
Real estate and rental and leasing
Quits rate: 1.2% Openings: 117K

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 Durable goods manufacturing (16th of 27 by openings rate (4.2%); volume 14th of 27). See our methodology.

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