Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 2026
Federal
Monthly job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs for Federal - national aggregates from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
- 108K
- Job openings
- 26K
- Hires
- 0.5%
- Quits rate
- 25th
- Of 27 by openings
BLS JOLTS turnover passport
Series extract JOLTS-910000 Federal
108K openings · 3.9% rate · 26K hires · Jul 2026
- OPEN 108K
- RATE 3.9%
- RANK 18th
- HIRE 26K
- QUIT 0.5%
- LAY 7K
- YOY -20.0%
- PHOTO Construction
Openings-rate peers
Photo peer: Construction (3.8%)
Federal is 18th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Construction →
Thin volume band
Federal sits in the thinnest openings-volume third
Highlighted bar is Federal. It ranks 25th of 27 by openings volume; denser peers sit above on the chart; by openings rate it is 18th of 27. Signature: 18th of 27 by openings rate (3.9%).
Federal sits at 25th of 27 in the full national board; the chart shows the top 9 plus this sector.
Federal openings fell 20% 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 Federal (18th of 27 by openings rate (3.9%); volume 25th of 27). See our methodology.
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