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Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 2026

State and local government, excluding education

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

417K
Job openings
145K
Hires
0.8%
Quits rate
12th
Of 27 by openings

BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-929000 State and local government, excluding education

417K openings · 4.1% rate · 145K hires · Jun 2026

  • OPEN 417K
  • RATE 4.1%
  • RANK 17th
  • HIRE 145K
  • QUIT 0.8%
  • LAY 41K
  • YOY -6.7%
  • PHOTO Durable goods manufacturing

Openings-rate peers

Photo peer: Durable goods manufacturing (4.2%)

Durable goods manufacturing4.2%Finance & insurance4.3%Trade, transportation, & uti…4.4%Financial activities4.4%State & local government, ex…4.1%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

State and local government, excluding education is 17th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Durable goods manufacturing →

Corpus placement

Where State and local government, excluding education sits among national openings

Highlighted bar is State and local government, excluding education. Rank uses the same national JOLTS supersector pool as the passport (Jun 2026); high openings volume is not a quality score - by openings rate this sector is 17th of 27. Signature: 17th of 27 by openings rate (4.1%).

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 & local684K12. State & local government…417K
National job openings by NAICS supersector · Jun 2026

State and local government, excluding education sits at 12th of 27 in the full national board; the chart shows the top 9 plus this sector.

State and local government, excluding education openings fell 6.7% 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.

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Nearest openings-rate peers

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

Durable goods manufacturing
Openings: 345K Rate: 4.2%
Finance and insurance
Openings: 303K Rate: 4.3%
Trade, transportation, and utilities
Openings: 1.3M Rate: 4.4%
Financial activities
Openings: 419K Rate: 4.4%
Manufacturing
Openings: 481K Rate: 3.7%
Other services
Openings: 281K Rate: 4.5%

Nearest quits-rate peers

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

Government
Quits rate: 0.8% Openings: 823K
State and local
Quits rate: 0.8% Openings: 684K
Finance and insurance
Quits rate: 0.9% Openings: 303K
State and local government education
Quits rate: 0.9% Openings: 267K
Financial activities
Quits rate: 1.0% Openings: 419K
Total private
Quits rate: 1.0% Openings: 215K

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, excluding education (17th of 27 by openings rate (4.1%); volume 12th of 27). See our methodology.

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