Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 2026

Retail trade

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

774K
Job openings
652K
Hires
3.0%
Quits rate
7th
Of 27 by openings

BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-440000 Retail trade

774K openings · 4.8% rate · 652K hires · Jun 2026

  • OPEN 774K
  • RATE 4.8%
  • RANK 8th
  • HIRE 652K
  • QUIT 3.0%
  • LAY 157K
  • YOY +27.9%
  • PHOTO Leisure & hospitality

Photo peer: Leisure and hospitality (4.7%)

Leisure & hospitality4.7%Federal4.9%Private education & health s…5%Accommodation & food services4.6%Retail trade (this)4.8%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

Retail trade is 8th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Leisure and hospitality →

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 (Jun 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 (4.8%).

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

Retail trade openings rose 27.9% 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.

0K500K1,000K1,500K2,000K 20192020202120222023202420252026 774K652K 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 Retail trade (8th of 27 by openings rate (4.8%); volume 7th of 27). See our methodology.

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