Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 2026

Health care and social assistance

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

1.3M
Job openings
701K
Hires
1.9%
Quits rate
2nd
Of 27 by openings

BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-620000 Health care and social assistance

1.3M openings · 5.3% rate · 701K hires · Jun 2026

  • OPEN 1.3M
  • RATE 5.3%
  • RANK 2nd
  • HIRE 701K
  • QUIT 1.9%
  • LAY 151K
  • YOY -8.1%
  • PHOTO Transportation, warehousing, & utilities

Photo peer: Transportation, warehousing, and utilities (5.2%)

Transportation, warehousing,…5.2%Total private5.2%Professional & business serv…5.5%Arts, entertainment, & recre…5.1%Health care & social assista…5.3%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

Health care and social assistance is 2nd of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Transportation, warehousing, and utilities →

Large volume band

Health care and social assistance sits in the largest openings-volume third

Highlighted bar is Health care and social assistance. Volume rank uses the national JOLTS supersector pool (Jun 2026); this sector is 2nd of 27 by openings level - by openings rate it is 2nd of 27. Signature: 2nd of 27 by openings rate (5.3%).

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

Health care and social assistance openings fell 8.1% 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.

0K500K1,000K1,500K2,000K2,500K 20192020202120222023202420252026 1,347K701K 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 Health care and social assistance (2nd of 27 by openings rate (5.3%); volume 2nd of 27). See our methodology.

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