Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 2026

Information

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

96K
Job openings
68K
Hires
1.0%
Quits rate
26th
Of 27 by openings
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Series extract JOLTS-510000 Information

96K openings · 3.3% rate · 68K hires · Jul 2026

  • OPEN 96K
  • RATE 3.3%
  • RANK 23rd
  • HIRE 68K
  • QUIT 1.0%
  • LAY 40K
  • YOY -38.9%
  • PHOTO State & local

Photo peer: State and local (3.3%)

State & local3.3%Government3.4%Nondurable goods manufacturi…3.1%Mining & logging3.5%Information (this)3.3%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jul 2026 (this sector highlighted)

Information is 23rd of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read State and local →

Thin volume band

Information sits in the thinnest openings-volume third

Highlighted bar is Information. It ranks 26th of 27 by openings volume; denser peers sit above on the chart; by openings rate it is 23rd of 27. Signature: 23rd of 27 by openings rate (3.3%).

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…673K26. Information96K
National job openings by NAICS supersector · Jul 2026

Information sits at 26th of 27 in the full national board; the chart shows the top 9 plus this sector.

Information openings fell 38.9% 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.

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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 Information (23rd of 27 by openings rate (3.3%); volume 26th of 27). See our methodology.

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