Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 2026
Total nonfarm
Monthly job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs for Total nonfarm - national aggregates from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
- 7.3M
- Job openings
- 5.1M
- Hires
- 1.9%
- Quits rate
BLS JOLTS turnover passport
Series extract JOLTS-000000 Total nonfarm
7.3M openings · 4.4% rate · 5.1M hires · Jul 2026
- OPEN 7.3M
- RATE 4.4%
- RANK n/a
- HIRE 5.1M
- QUIT 1.9%
- LAY 1.7M
- YOY +2.6%
- PHOTO Leisure & hospitality
Openings-rate peers
Photo peer: Leisure and hospitality (4.4%)
Peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours in the national JOLTS supersector pool for Jul 2026. Read Leisure and hospitality →
On the state table for this sector (Dec 2025), California leads with 674K openings, ahead of Texas (608K) and New York (431K). PlainLabor does not hold a full state×industry crossover for every month; the table below is the extract we ship.
Total nonfarm openings and hires over time
National monthly levels from BLS JOLTS (thousands). Openings and hires are separate series; their gap is not a backlog of unfilled postings.
State concentration
Top states for Total nonfarm openings
Ranked by reported openings in the latest state×industry month we hold (Dec 2025). Counts are JOLTS levels, not job-board postings.
State rankings detail
| # | State | Openings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 674K |
| 2 | Texas | 608K |
| 3 | New York | 431K |
| 4 | Florida | 404K |
| 5 | Ohio | 287K |
| 6 | Georgia | 279K |
| 7 | Pennsylvania | 235K |
| 8 | Michigan | 221K |
| 9 | Virginia | 213K |
| 10 | North Carolina | 212K |
| 11 | Illinois | 211K |
| 12 | New Jersey | 172K |
| 13 | Tennessee | 143K |
| 14 | Minnesota | 135K |
| 15 | Massachusetts | 129K |
| 16 | Missouri | 128K |
| 17 | Maryland | 127K |
| 18 | Indiana | 123K |
| 19 | Arizona | 121K |
| 20 | Wisconsin | 115K |
| 21 | Washington | 110K |
| 22 | South Carolina | 103K |
| 23 | Louisiana | 101K |
| 24 | Oklahoma | 101K |
| 25 | Colorado | 100K |
| 26 | Kentucky | 92K |
| 27 | Alabama | 91K |
| 28 | Oregon | 72K |
| 29 | Connecticut | 67K |
| 30 | Utah | 64K |
| 31 | Kansas | 61K |
| 32 | Arkansas | 60K |
| 33 | Mississippi | 59K |
| 34 | Iowa | 57K |
| 35 | Nevada | 52K |
| 36 | West Virginia | 42K |
| 37 | Nebraska | 38K |
| 38 | District of Columbia | 34K |
| 39 | Idaho | 34K |
| 40 | New Mexico | 32K |
| 41 | Maine | 28K |
| 42 | Delaware | 23K |
| 43 | Montana | 22K |
| 44 | New Hampshire | 22K |
| 45 | Rhode Island | 22K |
| 46 | South Dakota | 20K |
| 47 | Hawaii | 19K |
| 48 | North Dakota | 18K |
| 49 | Alaska | 16K |
| 50 | Vermont | 11K |
| 51 | Wyoming | 11K |
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 Total nonfarm. See our methodology.
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