Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 2026
Professional and business services
Monthly job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs for Professional and business services - national aggregates from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
- 1.1M
- Job openings
- 900K
- Hires
- 1.8%
- Quits rate
- 4th
- Of 27 by openings
BLS JOLTS turnover passport
Series extract JOLTS-540099 Professional and business services
1.1M openings · 4.8% rate · 900K hires · Jul 2026
- OPEN 1.1M
- RATE 4.8%
- RANK 5th
- HIRE 900K
- QUIT 1.8%
- LAY 435K
- YOY -8.2%
- PHOTO Other services
Openings-rate peers
Photo peer: Other services (4.6%)
Professional and business services is 5th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Other services →
Large volume band
Professional and business services sits in the largest openings-volume third
Highlighted bar is Professional and business services. Volume rank uses the national JOLTS supersector pool (Jul 2026); this sector is 4th of 27 by openings level - by openings rate it is 5th of 27. Signature: 5th of 27 by openings rate (4.8%).
Professional and business services openings fell 8.2% 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.
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 Professional and business services (5th of 27 by openings rate (4.8%); volume 4th of 27). See our methodology.
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