Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 2026

State and local

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

684K
Job openings
294K
Hires
0.8%
Quits rate
9th
Of 27 by openings

BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-920000 State and local

684K openings · 3.2% rate · 294K hires · Jun 2026

  • OPEN 684K
  • RATE 3.2%
  • RANK 21st
  • HIRE 294K
  • QUIT 0.8%
  • LAY 79K
  • YOY -8.2%
  • PHOTO Mining & logging

Photo peer: Mining and logging (3.2%)

Mining & logging3.2%Private educational services3.1%Information3.1%Government3.4%State & local (this)3.2%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

State and local is 21st of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Mining and logging →

By openings RATE - openings per 100 jobs, which removes sector size - State and local ranks 21st of 27 at 3.2%, against 9th of 27 by openings volume.

Large volume band

State and local sits in the largest openings-volume third

Highlighted bar is State and local. Volume rank uses the national JOLTS supersector pool (Jun 2026); this sector is 9th of 27 by openings level - by openings rate it is 21st of 27. Signature: 21st of 27 by openings rate (3.2%).

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

State and local 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.

0K200K400K600K800K1,000K1,200K 20192020202120222023202420252026 684K294K 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 State and local (21st of 27 by openings rate (3.2%); volume 9th of 27). See our methodology.

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