Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 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.

1.3M
Job openings
1.1M
Hires
2.2%
Quits rate
4th
Of 27 by openings

BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-540099 Professional and business services

1.3M openings · 5.5% rate · 1.1M hires · Jun 2026

  • OPEN 1.3M
  • RATE 5.5%
  • RANK 1st
  • HIRE 1.1M
  • QUIT 2.2%
  • LAY 504K
  • YOY -2.1%
  • PHOTO Health care & social assistance

Photo peer: Health care and social assistance (5.3%)

Health care & social assista…5.3%Transportation, warehousing,…5.2%Total private5.2%Arts, entertainment, & recre…5.1%Professional & business serv…5.5%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

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

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 (Jun 2026); this sector is 4th of 27 by openings level - by openings rate it is 1st of 27. Signature: 1st of 27 by openings rate (5.5%).

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

Professional and business services openings and hires over time

National monthly levels from BLS JOLTS (thousands). Openings and hires are separate series; their gap is not a backlog of unfilled postings.

500K1,000K1,500K2,000K2,500K3,000K 20192020202120222023202420252026 1,304K1,085K 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 Professional and business services (1st of 27 by openings rate (5.5%); volume 4th of 27). See our methodology.

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