Industry · BLS JOLTS · Jul 2026
Wholesale trade
Monthly job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs for Wholesale trade - national aggregates from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
- 224K
- Job openings
- 156K
- Hires
- 1.9%
- Quits rate
- 20th
- Of 27 by openings
BLS JOLTS turnover passport
Series extract JOLTS-420000 Wholesale trade
224K openings · 3.6% rate · 156K hires · Jul 2026
- OPEN 224K
- RATE 3.6%
- RANK 20th
- HIRE 156K
- QUIT 1.9%
- LAY 46K
- YOY +23.8%
- PHOTO Mining & logging
Openings-rate peers
Photo peer: Mining and logging (3.5%)
Wholesale trade is 20th of 27 supersectors by openings rate; peer pills are ABS(openings_rate) neighbours, not a fixed volume catalog. Read Mining and logging →
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 20th of 27. Signature: 20th of 27 by openings rate (3.6%).
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 23.8% 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 (20th of 27 by openings rate (3.6%); volume 20th of 27). See our methodology.
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