Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 2026

Federal

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

139K
Job openings
28K
Hires
0.5%
Quits rate
22nd
Of 27 by openings

BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-910000 Federal

139K openings · 4.9% rate · 28K hires · Jun 2026

  • OPEN 139K
  • RATE 4.9%
  • RANK 7th
  • HIRE 28K
  • QUIT 0.5%
  • LAY 6K
  • YOY +21.9%
  • PHOTO Private education & health services

Photo peer: Private education and health services (5.0%)

Private education & health s…5%Retail trade4.8%Arts, entertainment, & recre…5.1%Leisure & hospitality4.7%Federal (this)4.9%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

Federal is 7th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Private education and health services →

By openings RATE - openings per 100 jobs, which removes sector size - Federal ranks 7th of 27 at 4.9%, against 22nd of 27 by openings volume.

Thin volume band

Federal sits in the thinnest openings-volume third

Highlighted bar is Federal. It ranks 22nd of 27 by openings volume; denser peers sit above on the chart; by openings rate it is 7th of 27. Signature: 7th of 27 by openings rate (4.9%).

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 & local684K22. Federal139K
National job openings by NAICS supersector · Jun 2026

Federal sits at 22nd of 27 in the full national board; the chart shows the top 9 plus this sector.

Federal openings rose 21.9% 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.

0K100K200K300K400K 20192020202120222023202420252026 139K28K HiresOpenings

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 Federal (7th of 27 by openings rate (4.9%); volume 22nd of 27). See our methodology.

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