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Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 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.

316K
Job openings
277K
Hires
2.2%
Quits rate
15th
Of 27 by openings
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BLS JOLTS turnover passport

Series extract JOLTS-480099 Transportation, warehousing, and utilities

316K openings · 4.2% rate · 277K hires · Jul 2026

  • OPEN 316K
  • RATE 4.2%
  • RANK 13th
  • HIRE 277K
  • QUIT 2.2%
  • LAY 104K
  • YOY -7.6%
  • PHOTO Trade, transportation, & utilities

Openings-rate peers

Photo peer: Trade, transportation, and utilities (4.2%)

Trade, transportation, & uti…4.2%Financial activities4.2%Finance & insurance4.1%Leisure & hospitality4.4%Transportation, warehousing,…4.2%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jul 2026 (this sector highlighted)

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

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 (Jul 2026); high openings volume is not a quality score - by openings rate this sector is 13th of 27. Signature: 13th of 27 by openings rate (4.2%).

1. Private education & healt…1553K2. Health care & social assi…1438K3. Trade, transportation, & …1271K4. Professional & business s…1138K5. Government810K6. Leisure & hospitality783K7. Retail trade731K8. State & local702K9. Accommodation & food serv…673K15. Transportation, warehous…316K
National job openings by NAICS supersector · Jul 2026

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities sits at 15th of 27 in the full national board; the chart shows the top 9 plus this sector.

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities openings fell 7.6% 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 316K277K HiresOpenings

Nearest openings-rate peers

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

Trade, transportation, and utilities
Openings: 1.3M Rate: 4.2%
Financial activities
Openings: 401K Rate: 4.2%
Finance and insurance
Openings: 285K Rate: 4.1%
Leisure and hospitality
Openings: 783K Rate: 4.4%
Manufacturing
Openings: 580K Rate: 4.4%
State and local government, excluding education
Openings: 451K Rate: 4.4%

Nearest quits-rate peers

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

Other services
Quits rate: 2.2% Openings: 291K
Health care and social assistance
Quits rate: 1.9% Openings: 1.4M
Construction
Quits rate: 1.9% Openings: 326K
Wholesale trade
Quits rate: 1.9% Openings: 224K
Trade, transportation, and utilities
Quits rate: 2.6% Openings: 1.3M
Mining and logging
Quits rate: 2.6% Openings: 22K

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 (13th of 27 by openings rate (4.2%); volume 15th of 27). See our methodology.

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