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Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 2026

State and local government education

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

251K
Job openings
130K
Hires
0.8%
Quits rate
18th
Of 27 by openings
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BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-923000 State and local government education

251K openings · 2.3% rate · 130K hires · Jul 2026

  • OPEN 251K
  • RATE 2.3%
  • RANK 27th
  • HIRE 130K
  • QUIT 0.8%
  • LAY 35K
  • YOY +13.1%
  • PHOTO Private educational services

Openings-rate peers

Photo peer: Private educational services (2.8%)

Private educational services2.8%Nondurable goods manufacturi…3.1%State & local3.3%Information3.3%State & local government edu…2.3%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jul 2026 (this sector highlighted)

State and local government education is 27th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Private educational services →

By openings RATE - openings per 100 jobs, which removes sector size - State and local government education ranks 27th of 27 at 2.3%, against 18th of 27 by openings volume.

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Where State and local government education sits among national openings

Highlighted bar is State and local government education. Rank uses the same national JOLTS supersector pool as the passport (Jul 2026); high openings volume is not a quality score - by openings rate this sector is 27th of 27. Signature: 27th of 27 by openings rate (2.3%).

1. Private education & healt…1553K2. Health care & social assi…1438K3. Trade, transportation, & …1271K4. Professional & business s…1138K5. Government810K6. Leisure & hospitality783K7. Retail trade731K8. State & local702K9. Accommodation & food serv…673K18. State & local government…251K
National job openings by NAICS supersector · Jul 2026

State and local government education sits at 18th of 27 in the full national board; the chart shows the top 9 plus this sector.

State and local government education openings rose 13.1% 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.

0K100K200K300K400K500K600K 20192020202120222023202420252026 251K130K HiresOpenings

Nearest openings-rate peers

ABS(openings_rate) across national industries, not the fixed volume-leader strip.

Private educational services
Openings: 116K Rate: 2.8%
Nondurable goods manufacturing
Openings: 151K Rate: 3.1%
State and local
Openings: 702K Rate: 3.3%
Information
Openings: 96K Rate: 3.3%
Government
Openings: 810K Rate: 3.4%
Mining and logging
Openings: 22K Rate: 3.5%

Nearest quits-rate peers

ABS(quits_rate) nationwide, a second lattice independent of openings-rate peers.

Government
Quits rate: 0.8% Openings: 810K
State and local
Quits rate: 0.9% Openings: 702K
State and local government, excluding education
Quits rate: 0.9% Openings: 451K
Total private
Quits rate: 1.0% Openings: 241K
Information
Quits rate: 1.0% Openings: 96K
Federal
Quits rate: 0.5% Openings: 108K

For informational purposes only; this page does not constitute professional advice. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Data sourced from official public datasets for State and local government education (27th of 27 by openings rate (2.3%); volume 18th of 27). See our methodology.

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