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
Openings-rate peers
Photo peer: Private education and health services (5.0%)
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%).
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.
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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