Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 2026

Government

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

823K
Job openings
322K
Hires
0.8%
Quits rate
6th
Of 27 by openings

BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-900000 Government

823K openings · 3.4% rate · 322K hires · Jun 2026

  • OPEN 823K
  • RATE 3.4%
  • RANK 20th
  • HIRE 322K
  • QUIT 0.8%
  • LAY 85K
  • YOY -4.2%
  • PHOTO Construction

Photo peer: Construction (3.5%)

Construction3.5%State & local3.2%Mining & logging3.2%Private educational services3.1%Government (this)3.4%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

Government is 20th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Construction →

By openings RATE - openings per 100 jobs, which removes sector size - Government ranks 20th of 27 at 3.4%, against 6th 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 (Jun 2026); this sector is 6th of 27 by openings level - by openings rate it is 20th of 27. Signature: 20th of 27 by openings rate (3.4%).

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 & local684K10. Manufacturing481K
National job openings by NAICS supersector · Jun 2026

Government openings fell 4.2% 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.

0K500K1,000K1,500K 20192020202120222023202420252026 823K322K 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 Government (20th of 27 by openings rate (3.4%); volume 6th of 27). See our methodology.

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