Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 2026

Leisure and hospitality

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

783K
Job openings
885K
Hires
3.4%
Quits rate
6th
Of 27 by openings
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Series extract JOLTS-700000 Leisure and hospitality

783K openings · 4.4% rate · 885K hires · Jul 2026

  • OPEN 783K
  • RATE 4.4%
  • RANK 10th
  • HIRE 885K
  • QUIT 3.4%
  • LAY 280K
  • YOY -19.3%
  • PHOTO Manufacturing

Photo peer: Manufacturing (4.4%)

Manufacturing4.4%State & local government, ex…4.4%Retail trade4.5%Accommodation & food services4.5%Leisure & hospitality (this)4.4%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jul 2026 (this sector highlighted)

Leisure and hospitality is 10th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Manufacturing →

Large volume band

Leisure and hospitality sits in the largest openings-volume third

Highlighted bar is Leisure and hospitality. Volume rank uses the national JOLTS supersector pool (Jul 2026); this sector is 6th of 27 by openings level - by openings rate it is 10th of 27. Signature: 10th of 27 by openings rate (4.4%).

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

Leisure and hospitality openings fell 19.3% 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 783K885K 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 Leisure and hospitality (10th of 27 by openings rate (4.4%); volume 6th of 27). See our methodology.

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