Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 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.
- 702K
- Job openings
- 270K
- Hires
- 0.9%
- Quits rate
- 8th
- Of 27 by openings
BLS JOLTS turnover passport
Series extract JOLTS-920000 State and local
702K openings · 3.3% rate · 270K hires · Jul 2026
- OPEN 702K
- RATE 3.3%
- RANK 23rd
- HIRE 270K
- QUIT 0.9%
- LAY 78K
- YOY +8.5%
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Openings-rate peers
Photo peer: Information (3.3%)
State and local is 23rd of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Information →
By openings RATE - openings per 100 jobs, which removes sector size - State and local ranks 23rd of 27 at 3.3%, against 8th 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 (Jul 2026); this sector is 8th of 27 by openings level - by openings rate it is 23rd of 27. Signature: 23rd of 27 by openings rate (3.3%).
State and local openings rose 8.5% 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 State and local (23rd of 27 by openings rate (3.3%); volume 8th of 27). See our methodology.
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