Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 2026

Manufacturing

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

481K
Job openings
329K
Hires
1.5%
Quits rate
10th
Of 27 by openings

BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-300000 Manufacturing

481K openings · 3.7% rate · 329K hires · Jun 2026

  • OPEN 481K
  • RATE 3.7%
  • RANK 18th
  • HIRE 329K
  • QUIT 1.5%
  • LAY 94K
  • YOY +23.0%
  • PHOTO Construction

Photo peer: Construction (3.5%)

Construction3.5%Government3.4%State & local government, ex…4.1%State & local3.2%Manufacturing (this)3.7%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

Manufacturing is 18th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Construction →

Corpus placement

Where Manufacturing sits among national openings

Highlighted bar is Manufacturing. Rank uses the same national JOLTS supersector pool as the passport (Jun 2026); high openings volume is not a quality score - by openings rate this sector is 18th of 27. Signature: 18th of 27 by openings rate (3.7%).

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

Manufacturing openings rose 23.0% 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.

200K400K600K800K1,000K1,200K 20192020202120222023202420252026 481K329K 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 Manufacturing (18th of 27 by openings rate (3.7%); volume 10th of 27). See our methodology.

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