Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 2026
Government
Monthly job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs for Government - national aggregates from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
- 810K
- Job openings
- 296K
- Hires
- 0.8%
- Quits rate
- 5th
- Of 27 by openings
BLS JOLTS turnover passport
Series extract JOLTS-900000 Government
810K openings · 3.4% rate · 296K hires · Jul 2026
- OPEN 810K
- RATE 3.4%
- RANK 22nd
- HIRE 296K
- QUIT 0.8%
- LAY 84K
- YOY +3.7%
- PHOTO State & local
Openings-rate peers
Photo peer: State and local (3.3%)
Government is 22nd of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read State and local →
By openings RATE - openings per 100 jobs, which removes sector size - Government ranks 22nd of 27 at 3.4%, against 5th of 27 by openings volume.
Large volume band
Government sits in the largest openings-volume third
Highlighted bar is Government. Volume rank uses the national JOLTS supersector pool (Jul 2026); this sector is 5th of 27 by openings level - by openings rate it is 22nd of 27. Signature: 22nd of 27 by openings rate (3.4%).
Government openings rose 3.7% 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 Government (22nd of 27 by openings rate (3.4%); volume 5th of 27). See our methodology.
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