Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 2026
Retail trade
Monthly job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs for Retail trade - national aggregates from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
- 731K
- Job openings
- 625K
- Hires
- 3.1%
- Quits rate
- 7th
- Of 27 by openings
BLS JOLTS turnover passport
Series extract JOLTS-440000 Retail trade
731K openings · 4.5% rate · 625K hires · Jul 2026
- OPEN 731K
- RATE 4.5%
- RANK 8th
- HIRE 625K
- QUIT 3.1%
- LAY 141K
- YOY +26.9%
- PHOTO Accommodation & food services
Openings-rate peers
Photo peer: Accommodation and food services (4.5%)
Retail trade is 8th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Accommodation and food services →
Large volume band
Retail trade sits in the largest openings-volume third
Highlighted bar is Retail trade. Volume rank uses the national JOLTS supersector pool (Jul 2026); this sector is 7th of 27 by openings level - by openings rate it is 8th of 27. Signature: 8th of 27 by openings rate (4.5%).
Retail trade openings rose 26.9% 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.
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 Retail trade (8th of 27 by openings rate (4.5%); volume 7th of 27). See our methodology.
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