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Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 2026

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities

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

392K
Job openings
316K
Hires
2.4%
Quits rate
13th
Of 27 by openings

BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-480099 Transportation, warehousing, and utilities

392K openings · 5.2% rate · 316K hires · Jun 2026

  • OPEN 392K
  • RATE 5.2%
  • RANK 3rd
  • HIRE 316K
  • QUIT 2.4%
  • LAY 115K
  • YOY +28.5%
  • PHOTO Total private

Openings-rate peers

Photo peer: Total private (5.2%)

Total private5.2%Health care & social assista…5.3%Arts, entertainment, & recre…5.1%Private education & health s…5%Transportation, warehousing,…5.2%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities is 3rd of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Total private →

By openings RATE - openings per 100 jobs, which removes sector size - Transportation, warehousing, and utilities ranks 3rd of 27 at 5.2%, against 13th of 27 by openings volume.

Corpus placement

Where Transportation, warehousing, and utilities sits among national openings

Highlighted bar is Transportation, warehousing, and utilities. 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 3rd of 27. Signature: 3rd of 27 by openings rate (5.2%).

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 & local684K13. Transportation, warehous…392K
National job openings by NAICS supersector · Jun 2026

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities sits at 13th of 27 in the full national board; the chart shows the top 9 plus this sector.

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities openings rose 28.5% 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.

200K300K400K500K600K700K 20192020202120222023202420252026 392K316K HiresOpenings

Nearest openings-rate peers

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

Total private
Openings: 215K Rate: 5.2%
Health care and social assistance
Openings: 1.3M Rate: 5.3%
Arts, entertainment, and recreation
Openings: 145K Rate: 5.1%
Private education and health services
Openings: 1.5M Rate: 5.0%
Professional and business services
Openings: 1.3M Rate: 5.5%
Federal
Openings: 139K Rate: 4.9%

Nearest quits-rate peers

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

Arts, entertainment, and recreation
Quits rate: 2.4% Openings: 145K
Trade, transportation, and utilities
Quits rate: 2.5% Openings: 1.3M
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
Health care and social assistance
Quits rate: 1.9% Openings: 1.3M

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 Transportation, warehousing, and utilities (3rd of 27 by openings rate (5.2%); volume 13th of 27). See our methodology.

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