U.S. Quits Trends: The Great Resignation Peak and the Cool-Down
How U.S. voluntary quits moved from the pre-pandemic baseline through the Great Resignation peak to today, computed live from the BLS JOLTS national series, month by month.
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PlainLabor research tracks U.S. quits and labor-turnover from a BLS JOLTS extract of 6,804 monthly rows across 51 jurisdictions and 28 industries (through 2026-06), answering one quits-trajectory question per study.
- 6,804
- JOLTS rows
- 51
- state series
- 28
- industries
- 1
- published study
Studies below answer one national quits-trajectory question from the live JOLTS extract; they are descriptive labor-market summaries, not career advice.
Download the BLS JOLTS state snapshot cited on this page: jolts-labor-market-statistics.csv (CC0).
Every figure on PlainLabor is rendered from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS); no number is typed in by an editor. Research hub cards link to analyses computed from the same BLS JOLTS extract as the rest of PlainLabor. See our editorial standards and corrections policy, methodology, or report a data error. JOLTS figures are employer-survey openings and turnover rates for a published reference month - not job-quality rankings, hiring recommendations, or real-time vacancy postings.