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Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 2026

Trade, transportation, and utilities

Monthly job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs for Trade, transportation, and utilities - national aggregates from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.

1.3M
Job openings
1.1M
Hires
2.5%
Quits rate
3rd
Of 27 by openings

BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-400000 Trade, transportation, and utilities

1.3M openings · 4.4% rate · 1.1M hires · Jun 2026

  • OPEN 1.3M
  • RATE 4.4%
  • RANK 13th
  • HIRE 1.1M
  • QUIT 2.5%
  • LAY 312K
  • YOY +26.2%
  • PHOTO Financial activities

Openings-rate peers

Photo peer: Financial activities (4.4%)

Financial activities4.4%Other services4.5%Finance & insurance4.3%Accommodation & food services4.6%Trade, transportation, & uti…4.4%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

Trade, transportation, and utilities is 13th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Financial activities →

By openings RATE - openings per 100 jobs, which removes sector size - Trade, transportation, and utilities ranks 13th of 27 at 4.4%, against 3rd of 27 by openings volume.

Large volume band

Trade, transportation, and utilities sits in the largest openings-volume third

Highlighted bar is Trade, transportation, and utilities. Volume rank uses the national JOLTS supersector pool (Jun 2026); this sector is 3rd of 27 by openings level - by openings rate it is 13th of 27. Signature: 13th of 27 by openings rate (4.4%).

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 & local684K10. Manufacturing481K
National job openings by NAICS supersector · Jun 2026

Trade, transportation, and utilities openings rose 26.2% 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.

500K1,000K1,500K2,000K2,500K 20192020202120222023202420252026 1,330K1,118K HiresOpenings

Nearest openings-rate peers

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

Financial activities
Openings: 419K Rate: 4.4%
Other services
Openings: 281K Rate: 4.5%
Finance and insurance
Openings: 303K Rate: 4.3%
Accommodation and food services
Openings: 684K Rate: 4.6%
Real estate and rental and leasing
Openings: 117K Rate: 4.6%
Durable goods manufacturing
Openings: 345K Rate: 4.2%

Nearest quits-rate peers

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

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities
Quits rate: 2.4% Openings: 392K
Arts, entertainment, and recreation
Quits rate: 2.4% Openings: 145K
Mining and logging
Quits rate: 2.3% Openings: 20K
Professional and business services
Quits rate: 2.2% Openings: 1.3M
Other services
Quits rate: 2.8% Openings: 281K
Retail trade
Quits rate: 3.0% Openings: 774K

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 Trade, transportation, and utilities (13th of 27 by openings rate (4.4%); volume 3rd of 27). See our methodology.

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