Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 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.

1.4M
Job openings
676K
Hires
1.9%
Quits rate
2nd
Of 27 by openings
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BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-620000 Health care and social assistance

1.4M openings · 5.7% rate · 676K hires · Jul 2026

  • OPEN 1.4M
  • RATE 5.7%
  • RANK 1st
  • HIRE 676K
  • QUIT 1.9%
  • LAY 145K
  • YOY +11.0%
  • PHOTO Private education & health services

Photo peer: Private education and health services (5.3%)

Private education & health s…5.3%Total private5.3%Durable goods manufacturing5.2%Professional & business serv…4.8%Health care & social assista…5.7%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jul 2026 (this sector highlighted)

Health care and social assistance is 1st of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Private education and health services →

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 (Jul 2026); this sector is 2nd of 27 by openings level - by openings rate it is 1st of 27. Signature: 1st of 27 by openings rate (5.7%).

1. Private education & healt…1553K2. Health care & social assi…1438K3. Trade, transportation, & …1271K4. Professional & business s…1138K5. Government810K6. Leisure & hospitality783K7. Retail trade731K8. State & local702K9. Accommodation & food serv…673K10. Manufacturing580K
National job openings by NAICS supersector · Jul 2026

Health care and social assistance openings rose 11.0% 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 1,438K676K 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 (1st of 27 by openings rate (5.7%); volume 2nd of 27). See our methodology.

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