Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 2026
Total private
Monthly job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs for Total private - national aggregates from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
- 241K
- Job openings
- 80K
- Hires
- 1.0%
- Quits rate
- 19th
- Of 27 by openings
BLS JOLTS turnover passport
Series extract JOLTS-100000 Total private
241K openings · 5.3% rate · 80K hires · Jul 2026
- OPEN 241K
- RATE 5.3%
- RANK 2nd
- HIRE 80K
- QUIT 1.0%
- LAY 20K
- YOY +36.9%
- PHOTO Private education & health services
Openings-rate peers
Photo peer: Private education and health services (5.3%)
Total private is 2nd of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Private education and health services →
By openings RATE - openings per 100 jobs, which removes sector size - Total private ranks 2nd of 27 at 5.3%, against 19th of 27 by openings volume.
Thin volume band
Total private sits in the thinnest openings-volume third
Highlighted bar is Total private. It ranks 19th of 27 by openings volume; denser peers sit above on the chart; by openings rate it is 2nd of 27. Signature: 2nd of 27 by openings rate (5.3%).
Total private sits at 19th of 27 in the full national board; the chart shows the top 9 plus this sector.
Total private openings rose 36.9% 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 Total private (2nd of 27 by openings rate (5.3%); volume 19th of 27). See our methodology.
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