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

Photo peer: Nondurable goods manufacturing (2.8%)

Nondurable goods manufacturi…2.8%State & local government edu…2.4%Private educational services3.1%Information3.1%Wholesale trade (this)2.6%
Openings-rate neighbourhood · Jun 2026 (this sector highlighted)

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%).

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 & local684K20. Wholesale trade165K
National job openings by NAICS supersector · Jun 2026

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.

0K100K200K300K400K 20192020202120222023202420252026 165K149K HiresOpenings

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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