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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, PlainLabor publishes industry and state openings profiles from that extract and points to the official source when a question requires a different BLS program. See the methodology.
What PlainLabor tools cover
PlainLabor publishes 27 industry and 51 state JOLTS profiles (national through Jun 2026; state tables through Dec 2025) and routes wage-percentile questions to the official BLS OEWS tables.
These tools explain which BLS program answers which question. JOLTS covers openings, hires, quits, and layoffs by industry and state; OEWS wage percentiles live on BLS and are linked, not estimated here. Counts describe dataset coverage, not a ranking of job quality.
The live JOLTS extract powers 51 state profiles and 27 industry profiles (Jun 2026 nationally; state tables through Dec 2025) - retrieval scope counts, not a labor-market quality ranking.
Find official wage percentile data
Use the official BLS OEWS tables to compare an occupation-specific wage with the right national, state, or metro percentile columns.
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What a lookup can return
Every published profile has an underlying JOLTS record at its available national-industry or state-overview level. PlainLabor does not present a state-by-industry lookup when the extract does not provide one; wage percentiles remain in the separate OEWS source linked above.
Explore published state data
Latest job openings by state
This map uses the latest state-level JOLTS openings totals for Dec 2025. Select a state to open its profile. It shows the number of openings, not a measure of job quality, pay, or the chance that a particular person will be hired.
View all 51 states as a list
- California: 674
- Texas: 608
- New York: 431
- Florida: 404
- Ohio: 287
- Georgia: 279
- Pennsylvania: 235
- Michigan: 221
- Virginia: 213
- North Carolina: 212
- Illinois: 211
- New Jersey: 172
- Tennessee: 143
- Minnesota: 135
- Massachusetts: 129
- Missouri: 128
- Maryland: 127
- Indiana: 123
- Arizona: 121
- Wisconsin: 115
- Washington: 110
- South Carolina: 103
- Louisiana: 101
- Oklahoma: 101
- Colorado: 100
- Kentucky: 92
- Alabama: 91
- Oregon: 72
- Connecticut: 67
- Utah: 64
- Kansas: 61
- Arkansas: 60
- Mississippi: 59
- Iowa: 57
- Nevada: 52
- West Virginia: 42
- Nebraska: 38
- District of Columbia: 34
- Idaho: 34
- New Mexico: 32
- Maine: 28
- Delaware: 23
- Montana: 22
- New Hampshire: 22
- Rhode Island: 22
- South Dakota: 20
- Hawaii: 19
- North Dakota: 18
- Alaska: 16
- Vermont: 11
- Wyoming: 11
Data source: PlainLabor’s published openings profiles are drawn from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The map covers all 50 states and the District of Columbia; state releases can lag the national JOLTS series.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) · Dec 2025 The map uses state-level JOLTS openings totals. Wage percentiles are linked to official BLS OEWS tables, not estimated here.
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. This hub describes lookup coverage for published JOLTS profiles and hands wage-percentile questions to BLS OEWS - PlainLabor does not invent a local wage calculator. See our editorial standards and corrections policy, methodology, or report a data error. Data current as of national Jun 2026; states Dec 2025. 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.