Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jun 2026
Wholesale trade
Monthly job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs for Wholesale trade - national aggregates from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
- 165K
- Job openings
- 149K
- Hires
- 1.5%
- Quits rate
- 20th
- Of 27 by openings
BLS JOLTS turnover passport
Series extract JOLTS-420000 Wholesale trade
165K openings · 2.6% rate · 149K hires · Jun 2026
- OPEN 165K
- RATE 2.6%
- RANK 26th
- HIRE 149K
- QUIT 1.5%
- LAY 40K
- YOY +14.6%
- PHOTO Nondurable goods manufacturing
Openings-rate peers
Photo peer: Nondurable goods manufacturing (2.8%)
Wholesale trade is 26th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Nondurable goods manufacturing →
Thin volume band
Wholesale trade sits in the thinnest openings-volume third
Highlighted bar is Wholesale trade. It ranks 20th of 27 by openings volume; denser peers sit above on the chart; by openings rate it is 26th of 27. Signature: 26th of 27 by openings rate (2.6%).
Wholesale trade sits at 20th of 27 in the full national board; the chart shows the top 9 plus this sector.
Wholesale trade openings rose 14.6% 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.
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 Wholesale trade (26th of 27 by openings rate (2.6%); volume 20th of 27). See our methodology.
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