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JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER – JULY 2021

The number of job openings increased to a series high of 10.9 million on the last business day of July, 

the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Hires and total separations were little changed at 6.7

million and 5.8 million, respectively. Within separations, the quits rate was unchanged at 2.7 percent 

while the layoffs and discharges rate was little changed at 1.0 percent. This release includes estimates of 

the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the total nonfarm sector, by industry, by 

four geographic regions, and by establishment size class. 

Job Openings 

On the last business day of July, the number and rate of job openings increased to series highs of 10.9 

million (+749,000) and 6.9 percent, respectively. Job openings increased in several industries, with the 

largest increases in health care and social assistance (+294,000); finance and insurance (+116,000); and 

accommodation and food services (+115,000). The number of job openings increased in the Northeast, 

South, and West regions. (See table 1.) 

Hires 

In July, the number and rate of hires were little changed at 6.7 million and 4.5 percent, respectively. 

Hires decreased in retail trade (-277,000), durable goods manufacturing (-41,000), and educational 

services (-23,000). The number of hires increased in state and local government education (+33,000) 

and in federal government (+21,000). The number of hires was little changed in all four regions. (See 

table 2.) 

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Chart 1. Job openings rate, seasonally adjusted,

July 2018 - July 2021

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Chart 2. Hires and total separations rates, seasonally adjusted,

July 2018 - July 2021
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Separations 

Total separations includes quits, layoffs and discharges, and other separations. Quits are generally 

voluntary separations initiated by the employee. Therefore, the quits rate can serve as a measure of 

workers’ willingness or ability to leave jobs. Layoffs and discharges are involuntary separations initiated 

by the employer. Other separations includes separations due to retirement, death, disability, and transfers 

to other locations of the same firm. 

In July, the number and rate of total separations were little changed at 5.8 million and 3.9 percent, 

respectively. The total separations level decreased in transportation, warehousing, and utilities (-43,000) 

and in federal government (-9,000). Total separations increased in the Northeast region. (See table 3.) 

The number of quits was little changed in July at 4.0 million. The quits rate was unchanged at 2.7 

percent. Quits increased in wholesale trade (+34,000) and in state and local government education 

(+14,000). Quits decreased in transportation, warehousing, and utilities (-25,000) and in federal 

government (-5,000). The number of quits was little changed in all four regions. (See table 4.) 

In July, the number and rate of layoffs and discharges were little changed at 1.5 million and 1.0 

percent, respectively. Layoffs and discharges increased in professional and business services 

(+107,000). Layoffs and discharges were little changed in all four regions. (See table 5.) 

The number of other separations was little changed in July at 350,000. Other separations decreased in 

health care and social assistance (-16,000), information (-6,000), and real estate and rental and leasing 

(-5,000). The other separations level decreased in the West region. (See table 6.) 

Net Change in Employment 

Large numbers of hires and separations occur every month throughout the business cycle. Net 

employment change results from the relationship between hires and separations. When the number of 

hires exceeds the number of separations, employment rises, even if the hires level is steady or declining. 

Conversely, when the number of hires is less than the number of separations, employment declines, even 

if the hires level is steady or rising. 

Over the 12 months ending in July, hires totaled 72.6 million and separations totaled 65.6 million, 

yielding a net employment gain of 7.0 million. These totals include workers who may have been hired 

and separated more than once during the year. 

Establishment Size Class 

In July, the job openings rate increased in medium establishments with 50-249 employees and decreased 

in large establishments with 5,000 or more employees. The hires rate decreased in large establishments 

with 5,000 or more employees. The total separations rate decreased in large establishments with 5,000 or 

more employees. The other separations rate decreased in large establishments with 250-999 employees 

and 1,000-4,999 employees. For a more in-depth description of the JOLTS establishment size class 

estimates, please visit www.bls.gov/jlt/sizeclassmethodology.htm. 

The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey estimates for August 2021 are scheduled to be 

released on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. (ET).
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Impact on July 2021

Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey Data

More information about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the JOLTS survey, including 

information about the JOLTS estimation methodology, is available at www.bls.gov/covid19/jobopenings-and-labor-turnover-covid19-july-2021.htm.
Table A. Job openings, hires, and total separations by industry, seasonally adjusted

Category

Job openings Hires Total separations

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

LEVELS BY INDUSTRY

(in thousands)

Total................................................... 6,717 10,185 10,934 6,237 6,827 6,667 5,392 5,612 5,786

Total private....................................... 5,915 9,226 9,881 5,893 6,398 6,166 4,949 5,350 5,515

Mining and logging............................. 15 28 39 25 25 24 25 19 17

Construction.................................... 298 338 321 389 371 384 347 379 391

Manufacturing.................................. 402 880 889 362 483 441 378 427 423

Durable goods............................... 223 494 481 200 280 239 220 237 223

Nondurable goods........................... 179 386 408 162 203 202 158 191 200

Trade, transportation, and utilities........... 1,250 1,943 1,850 1,256 1,585 1,302 1,126 1,267 1,273

Wholesale trade............................. 172 274 260 130 175 184 137 142 172

Retail trade................................... 781 1,195 1,100 786 1,126 849 713 861 879

Transportation, warehousing, and

utilities...................................... 296 474 490 340 283 269 276 265 222

Information...................................... 86 161 174 87 91 98 64 88 80

Financial activities.............................. 308 346 548 265 209 218 208 203 204

Finance and insurance..................... 235 246 362 134 139 142 129 143 139

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . .. 74 100 186 131 70 76 80 60 65

Professional and business services......... 1,184 1,719 1,833 1,100 1,163 1,253 1,058 1,100 1,199

Education and health services............... 1,214 1,700 1,981 846 796 780 706 719 701

Educational services........................ 83 201 188 99 128 105 82 65 67

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . .. 1,131 1,498 1,792 747 667 675 624 654 633

Leisure and hospitality........................ 859 1,685 1,819 1,359 1,392 1,397 844 955 995

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . .. 96 216 235 192 180 187 132 120 125

Accommodation and food services. . . . . .. 762 1,469 1,584 1,167 1,212 1,211 712 834 870

Other services.................................. 299 425 427 204 284 268 194 193 233

Government....................................... 803 959 1,053 344 429 502 443 262 271

Federal.......................................... 286 119 116 73 36 57 45 50 41

State and local................................. 516 840 936 271 393 444 397 212 229

State and local education.................. 156 446 460 132 267 300 263 57 75

State and local, excluding education. . . .. 360 394 477 139 126 145 135 155 154

RATES BY INDUSTRY

(percent)

Total................................................... 4.6 6.5 6.9 4.5 4.7 4.5 3.9 3.8 3.9

Total private....................................... 4.8 6.9 7.3 5.0 5.2 4.9 4.2 4.3 4.4

Mining and logging............................. 2.5 4.3 5.8 4.2 4.0 3.8 4.2 3.0 2.6

Construction.................................... 4.0 4.4 4.2 5.4 5.0 5.2 4.8 5.1 5.3

Manufacturing.................................. 3.2 6.7 6.7 3.0 3.9 3.6 3.1 3.5 3.4

Durable goods............................... 2.9 6.1 5.9 2.7 3.7 3.1 2.9 3.1 2.9

Nondurable goods........................... 3.8 7.6 8.0 3.6 4.3 4.3 3.5 4.1 4.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities........... 4.6 6.6 6.3 4.8 5.8 4.8 4.3 4.6 4.7

Wholesale trade............................. 3.0 4.6 4.4 2.3 3.1 3.2 2.5 2.5 3.0

Retail trade................................... 5.0 7.2 6.7 5.3 7.3 5.5 4.8 5.6 5.7

Transportation, warehousing, and

utilities...................................... 4.8 7.0 7.2 5.7 4.5 4.3 4.7 4.2 3.5

Information...................................... 3.2 5.6 6.0 3.4 3.3 3.6 2.5 3.2 2.9

Financial activities.............................. 3.4 3.8 5.8 3.1 2.4 2.5 2.4 2.3 2.3

Finance and insurance..................... 3.5 3.6 5.2 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.0 2.2 2.1

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . .. 3.3 4.2 7.5 6.0 3.1 3.3 3.7 2.6 2.8

Professional and business services......... 5.7 7.6 8.1 5.6 5.6 6.0 5.4 5.3 5.7

Education and health services............... 5.0 6.7 7.7 3.7 3.4 3.3 3.1 3.1 3.0

Educational services........................ 2.4 5.4 5.0 2.9 3.6 2.9 2.4 1.8 1.9

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . .. 5.5 7.0 8.2 3.8 3.3 3.4 3.2 3.3 3.2

Leisure and hospitality........................ 6.3 10.2 10.7 10.6 9.4 9.2 6.6 6.5 6.6

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . .. 5.6 9.6 10.1 11.8 8.8 8.9 8.1 5.9 5.9

Accommodation and food services. . . . . .. 6.4 10.3 10.8 10.4 9.5 9.3 6.4 6.5 6.7

Other services.................................. 5.3 7.0 7.0 3.8 5.0 4.7 3.6 3.4 4.1

See footnotes at end of table.
Table A. Job openings, hires, and total separations by industry, seasonally adjusted — Continued

Category

Job openings Hires Total separations

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

Government....................................... 3.6 4.2 4.6 1.6 2.0 2.3 2.1 1.2 1.2

Federal.......................................... 9.0 4.0 3.9 2.5 1.3 2.0 1.6 1.7 1.4

State and local................................. 2.7 4.2 4.7 1.5 2.1 2.3 2.1 1.1 1.2

State and local education.................. 1.6 4.3 4.3 1.3 2.7 2.9 2.7 0.6 0.7

State and local, excluding education. . . .. 3.9 4.2 5.1 1.6 1.4 1.6 1.5 1.7 1.7

p Preliminary
Technical Note

Special technical note: This technical note 

describes the procedures regularly used on a monthly 

basis to develop estimates from JOLTS survey 

responses. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some of 

the procedures described in this technical note have 

been modified. The modifications are briefly 

described in the box note in the news release and are 

described in more detail at 

www.bls.gov/covid19/effects-of-covid-19-pandemicon-job-openings-and-labor-turnover-data.htm.

This news release presents statistics from the Job 

Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). The 

JOLTS program provides information on labor 

demand and turnover. Additional information about 

the JOLTS program can be found at 

www.bls.gov/jlt/. Estimates are published for job 

openings, hires, quits, layoffs and discharges, other 

separations, and total separations. The JOLTS 

program covers all private nonfarm establishments, 

as well as civilian federal, state, and local 

government entities in the 50 states and the District 

of Columbia. Industries are classified in accordance 

with the North American Industry Classification 

System.

Definitions

Employment. Employment includes persons on 

the payroll who worked or received pay for the pay 

period that includes the 12th day of the reference 

month. Full-time, part-time, permanent, short-term, 

seasonal, salaried, and hourly employees are 

included, as are employees on paid vacation or other 

paid leave. Proprietors or partners of unincorporated 

businesses, unpaid family workers, or employees on 

strike for the entire pay period, and employees on 

leave without pay for the entire pay period are not 

counted as employed. Employees of temporary help 

agencies, employee leasing companies, outside 

contractors, and consultants are counted by their 

employer of record, not by the establishment where 

they are working. JOLTS does not publish 

employment estimates but uses the reported 

employment for validation of the other reported data 

elements.

Job Openings. Job openings include all 

positions that are open on the last business day of the 

reference month. A job is open only if it meets all 

three of these conditions: 

 A specific position exists and there is work 

available for that position. The position can 

be full-time or part-time, and it can be 

permanent, short-term, or seasonal. 

 The job could start within 30 days, whether 

or not the employer can find a suitable 

candidate during that time. 

 The employer is actively recruiting workers 

from outside the establishment to fill the 

position. Active recruiting means that the 

establishment is taking steps to fill a 

position. It may include advertising in 

newspapers, on television, or on the radio; 

posting Internet notices, posting “help 

wanted” signs, networking or making 

“word-of-mouth” announcements; accepting 

applications; interviewing candidates; 

contacting employment agencies; or 

soliciting employees at job fairs, state or 

local employment offices, or similar

sources.

Excluded are positions open only to internal 

transfers, promotions or demotions, or recall from 

layoffs. Also excluded are openings for positions 

with start dates more than 30 days in the future, 

positions for which employees have been hired but 

the employees have not yet reported for work, and 

positions to be filled by employees of temporary help 

agencies, employee leasing companies, outside 

contractors, or consultants. The job openings rate is 

computed by dividing the number of job openings by 

the sum of employment and job openings and 

multiplying that quotient by 100.

Hires. Hires include all additions to the payroll 

during the entire reference month, including newly 

hired and rehired employees; full-time and part-time 

employees; permanent, short-term, and seasonal 

employees; employees who were recalled to a job at 

the location following a layoff (formal suspension 

from pay status) lasting more than 7 days; on-call or 

intermittent employees who returned to work after 

having been formally separated; workers who were 

hired and separated during the month, and transfers 

from other locations. Excluded are transfers or 

promotions within the reporting location, employees 

returning from strike, employees of temporary help 

agencies, employee leasing companies, outside 

contractors, or consultants. The hires rate is 

computed by dividing the number of hires by 

employment and multiplying that quotient by 100.
Separations. Separations include all separations 

from the payroll during the entire reference month 

and is reported by type of separation: quits, layoffs 

and discharges, and other separations. Quits include 

employees who left voluntarily with the exception of 

retirements or transfers to other locations. Layoffs 

and discharges includes involuntary separations 

initiated by the employer including layoffs with no 

intent to rehire; layoffs (formal suspensions from pay 

status) lasting or expected to last more than 7 days; 

discharges resulting from mergers, downsizing, or 

closings; firings or other discharges for cause; 

terminations of permanent or short-term employees; 

and terminations of seasonal employees (whether or 

not they are expected to return the next season). 

Other separations include retirements, transfers to 

other locations, separations due to employee 

disability; and deaths. Excluded from separations are

transfers within the same location; employees on 

strike; employees of temporary help agencies, 

employee leasing companies, outside contractors, or 

consultants. The separations rate is computed by 

dividing the number of separations by employment 

and multiplying that quotient by 100. The quits, 

layoffs and discharges, and other separations rates are 

computed similarly.

Estimation Method

The JOLTS survey design is a stratified random 

sample of 20,700 nonfarm business and government 

establishments. The sample is stratified by 

ownership, region, industry sector, and establishment 

size class. The establishments are drawn from a 

universe of over 9.4 million establishments compiled 

by the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages 

(QCEW) program which includes all employers 

subject to state unemployment insurance laws and 

federal agencies subject to the Unemployment 

Compensation for Federal Employees program.

Employment estimates are benchmarked, or ratio 

adjusted, monthly to the strike-adjusted employment 

estimates of the Current Employment Statistics 

(CES) survey. A ratio of CES to JOLTS employment 

is used to adjust the levels for all other JOLTS data 

elements.

Birth/death model. The time lag from the start 

up, or birth, of an establishment until its appearance 

on the sampling frame is approximately one year. 

Also within the first year, new businesses may go out 

of business, referred to as a death. Because not all 

births and deaths of establishments can be reflected 

on the sampling frame immediately, the JOLTS 

sample cannot capture job openings, hires, and 

separations from them during their early existence. 

BLS has developed a birth/death model that uses 

establishment birth and death activity from previous 

years. The estimates of job openings, hires, and 

separations produced by the birth/death model are 

added to the sample-based estimates produced from 

the survey to arrive at the estimates for job openings, 

hires, and separations.

Alignment. The JOLTS figure for hires minus 

separations can be used to derive a measure of net 

employment change. This change should be 

comparable to the net employment change from the 

much larger CES survey. However, definitional 

differences as well as sampling and nonsampling 

errors between the two surveys historically caused 

JOLTS to diverge from CES over time. To limit the 

divergence, and improve the quality of the JOLTS 

hires and separations series, BLS implemented the 

monthly alignment method. There are four steps to 

this method: seasonally adjust, align, back out the 

seasonal adjustment factors, and seasonally adjust

again.

Seasonal adjustment. BLS uses X-13 ARIMA 

for seasonal adjustment. A concurrent seasonal 

adjustment methodology is used in which new 

seasonal adjustment factors are calculated each

month, using all relevant data up to and including 

current month data. JOLTS seasonal adjustment 

includes both additive and multiplicative models and 

REGARIMA (regression with auto-correlated errors) 

modeling to improve the seasonal adjustment factors 

at the beginning and end of the series and to detect 

and adjust for outliers in the series. The seasonally 

adjusted CES employment trends are applied to the 

seasonally adjusted JOLTS implied employment 

trends (hires minus separations) forcing them to be 

approximately the same, while preserving the 

seasonality of the JOLTS data. 

Annual estimates. The JOLTS estimates are 

revised annually to reflect annual updates to the CES 

employment estimates and the JOLTS seasonal 

adjustment factors. The JOLTS employment levels 

are ratio-adjusted to the CES employment levels, and 

the resulting ratios are applied to all JOLTS data 

elements. The seasonally adjusted data are 

recalculated for the most recent 5 years in order to 

reflect updated seasonal adjustment factors. These 
annual updates result in revisions to both the 

seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted 

JOLTS data series, for the period since the last 

benchmark was established.

Annual levels for hires, quits, layoffs and 

discharges, other separations, and total separations 

are the sum of the 12 published monthly levels. 

Annual rates are computed by dividing the annual 

level by the Current Employment Statistics (CES) 

annual average employment level, and multiplying 

that quotient by 100. This figure will be 

approximately equal to the sum of the 12 monthly 

rates. Consistent with BLS practice, annual estimates 

are published only for not seasonally adjusted data 

and are released with the January news release each 

year. Annual estimates are not calculated for job 

openings because job openings are a stock, or pointin-time, measurement for the last business day of 

each month.

Reliability of the estimates

JOLTS estimates are subject to both sampling 

and nonsampling error. Nonsampling error occurs 

when a sample is surveyed rather than the entire 

population. There is a chance that the sample

estimates may differ from the true population values 

they represent. The difference, or sampling error, 

varies depending on the particular sample selected.

This variability is measured by the standard error of 

the estimate. BLS analysis is generally conducted at 

the 90-percent level of confidence. That means that 

there is a 90-percent chance, or level of confidence, 

that an estimate based on a sample will differ by no 

more than 1.6 standard errors from the true

population value because of sampling error. 

Sampling error estimates are available at 

www.bls.gov/jlt/jolts_median_standard_errors.htm.

The JOLTS estimates also are affected by 

nonsampling error. Nonsampling error can occur for 

many reasons including: the failure to include a 

segment of the population; the inability to obtain data 

from all units in the sample; the inability or 

unwillingness of respondents to provide data on a 

timely basis; mistakes made by respondents; errors 

made in the collection or processing of the data; and 

errors from the employment benchmark data used in 

estimation.

Other information

Information in this release will be made available 

to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice 

phone: (202) 691-5200; Federal Relay Service: (800) 

877-8339.
Table 1. Job openings levels and rates by industry and region, seasonally adjusted1

Industry and region

Levels (in thousands) Rates2

July

2020

Mar.

2021

Apr.

2021

May

2021

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

Mar.

2021

Apr.

2021

May

2021

June

2021

July

2021p

Total............................................... 6,717 8,288 9,193 9,483 10,185 10,934 4.6 5.4 6.0 6.1 6.5 6.9

INDUSTRY

Total private................................... 5,915 7,446 8,263 8,601 9,226 9,881 4.8 5.7 6.3 6.5 6.9 7.3

Mining and logging......................... 15 31 23 26 28 39 2.5 4.8 3.6 4.0 4.3 5.8

Construction................................ 298 334 351 317 338 321 4.0 4.3 4.5 4.1 4.4 4.2

Manufacturing.............................. 402 749 825 853 880 889 3.2 5.7 6.3 6.5 6.7 6.7

Durable goods........................... 223 393 462 480 494 481 2.9 4.9 5.7 5.9 6.1 5.9

Nondurable goods....................... 179 356 364 373 386 408 3.8 7.1 7.2 7.4 7.6 8.0

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . .. 1,250 1,562 1,644 1,687 1,943 1,850 4.6 5.4 5.7 5.8 6.6 6.3

Wholesale trade......................... 172 256 285 277 274 260 3.0 4.3 4.8 4.6 4.6 4.4

Retail trade............................... 781 899 955 1,020 1,195 1,100 5.0 5.6 5.9 6.3 7.2 6.7

Transportation, warehousing, and

utilities.................................. 296 406 404 390 474 490 4.8 6.1 6.1 5.9 7.0 7.2

Information.................................. 86 102 114 140 161 174 3.2 3.7 4.0 4.9 5.6 6.0

Financial activities......................... 308 346 416 392 346 548 3.4 3.8 4.5 4.3 3.8 5.8

Finance and insurance................. 235 264 292 289 246 362 3.5 3.9 4.3 4.2 3.6 5.2

Real estate and rental and leasing. .. 74 82 124 103 100 186 3.3 3.5 5.2 4.3 4.2 7.5

Professional and business services. . . .. 1,184 1,421 1,591 1,562 1,719 1,833 5.7 6.4 7.1 7.0 7.6 8.1

Education and health services........... 1,214 1,431 1,529 1,630 1,700 1,981 5.0 5.8 6.1 6.5 6.7 7.7

Educational services.................... 83 144 130 169 201 188 2.4 4.0 3.6 4.6 5.4 5.0

Health care and social assistance. . .. 1,131 1,287 1,400 1,461 1,498 1,792 5.5 6.1 6.5 6.8 7.0 8.2

Leisure and hospitality.................... 859 1,195 1,405 1,511 1,685 1,819 6.3 8.0 9.1 9.5 10.2 10.7

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. .. 96 206 247 194 216 235 5.6 10.3 11.5 9.0 9.6 10.1

Accommodation and food services. .. 762 989 1,159 1,317 1,469 1,584 6.4 7.7 8.7 9.6 10.3 10.8

Other services.............................. 299 275 364 483 425 427 5.3 4.7 6.1 8.0 7.0 7.0

Government................................... 803 843 930 882 959 1,053 3.6 3.8 4.1 3.9 4.2 4.6

Federal...................................... 286 126 143 126 119 116 9.0 4.2 4.7 4.2 4.0 3.9

State and local............................. 516 717 787 756 840 936 2.7 3.7 4.0 3.9 4.2 4.7

State and local education.............. 156 267 288 322 446 460 1.6 2.7 2.9 3.2 4.3 4.3

State and local, excluding

education.............................. 360 450 500 433 394 477 3.9 4.8 5.3 4.6 4.2 5.1

REGION3

Northeast...................................... 1,162 1,524 1,645 1,694 1,746 2,026 4.4 5.5 5.9 6.0 6.2 7.0

South........................................... 2,499 3,163 3,509 3,594 3,888 4,114 4.6 5.6 6.2 6.3 6.8 7.1

Midwest........................................ 1,562 1,783 2,069 2,064 2,227 2,300 4.9 5.4 6.2 6.2 6.6 6.7

West............................................ 1,495 1,818 1,970 2,131 2,323 2,495 4.4 5.1 5.5 5.9 6.4 6.8

1

Job openings are the number of job openings on the last business day of the month.

2 The job openings rate is the number of job openings on the last business day of the month as a percent of total employment plus job openings.

3 The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona,

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

p Preliminary
Table 2. Hires levels and rates by industry and region, seasonally adjusted1

Industry and region

Levels (in thousands) Rates2

July

2020

Mar.

2021

Apr.

2021

May

2021

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

Mar.

2021

Apr.

2021

May

2021

June

2021

July

2021p

Total............................................... 6,237 6,006 6,012 6,022 6,827 6,667 4.5 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.7 4.5

INDUSTRY

Total private................................... 5,893 5,646 5,661 5,703 6,398 6,166 5.0 4.6 4.6 4.6 5.2 4.9

Mining and logging......................... 25 31 21 23 25 24 4.2 5.0 3.5 3.8 4.0 3.8

Construction................................ 389 442 328 304 371 384 5.4 5.9 4.4 4.1 5.0 5.2

Manufacturing.............................. 362 434 399 427 483 441 3.0 3.5 3.3 3.5 3.9 3.6

Durable goods........................... 200 255 216 235 280 239 2.7 3.3 2.8 3.1 3.7 3.1

Nondurable goods....................... 162 180 183 192 203 202 3.6 3.9 3.9 4.1 4.3 4.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . .. 1,256 1,156 1,210 1,271 1,585 1,302 4.8 4.3 4.5 4.7 5.8 4.8

Wholesale trade......................... 130 148 170 163 175 184 2.3 2.6 3.0 2.9 3.1 3.2

Retail trade............................... 786 755 793 832 1,126 849 5.3 5.0 5.2 5.5 7.3 5.5

Transportation, warehousing, and

utilities.................................. 340 252 246 277 283 269 5.7 4.0 3.9 4.4 4.5 4.3

Information.................................. 87 94 101 99 91 98 3.4 3.5 3.7 3.6 3.3 3.6

Financial activities......................... 265 209 211 201 209 218 3.1 2.4 2.4 2.3 2.4 2.5

Finance and insurance................. 134 132 141 130 139 142 2.1 2.0 2.1 2.0 2.1 2.2

Real estate and rental and leasing. .. 131 77 70 70 70 76 6.0 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.3

Professional and business services. . . .. 1,100 1,129 1,056 1,049 1,163 1,253 5.6 5.4 5.1 5.1 5.6 6.0

Education and health services........... 846 754 749 760 796 780 3.7 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.4 3.3

Educational services.................... 99 114 88 102 128 105 2.9 3.3 2.5 2.9 3.6 2.9

Health care and social assistance. . .. 747 640 661 658 667 675 3.8 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.4

Leisure and hospitality.................... 1,359 1,172 1,336 1,346 1,392 1,397 10.6 8.5 9.5 9.4 9.4 9.2

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. .. 192 157 187 186 180 187 11.8 8.8 9.8 9.5 8.8 8.9

Accommodation and food services. .. 1,167 1,015 1,150 1,160 1,212 1,211 10.4 8.5 9.4 9.3 9.5 9.3

Other services.............................. 204 226 249 222 284 268 3.8 4.1 4.5 4.0 5.0 4.7

Government................................... 344 360 351 319 429 502 1.6 1.7 1.6 1.5 2.0 2.3

Federal...................................... 73 35 43 35 36 57 2.5 1.2 1.5 1.2 1.3 2.0

State and local............................. 271 325 308 284 393 444 1.5 1.7 1.6 1.5 2.1 2.3

State and local education.............. 132 162 159 180 267 300 1.3 1.7 1.6 1.8 2.7 2.9

State and local, excluding

education.............................. 139 164 149 104 126 145 1.6 1.8 1.7 1.2 1.4 1.6

REGION3

Northeast...................................... 1,146 997 961 880 1,021 1,005 4.5 3.8 3.7 3.3 3.8 3.8

South........................................... 2,302 2,295 2,359 2,442 2,647 2,642 4.5 4.3 4.5 4.6 4.9 4.9

Midwest........................................ 1,368 1,295 1,290 1,278 1,641 1,538 4.5 4.2 4.1 4.1 5.2 4.8

West............................................ 1,421 1,419 1,401 1,421 1,519 1,482 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.2 4.4 4.3

1 Hires are the number of hires during the entire month.

2 The hires rate is the number of hires during the entire month as a percent of total employment.

3 The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona,

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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Table 3. Total separations levels and rates by industry and region, seasonally adjusted1

Industry and region

Levels (in thousands) Rates2

July

2020

Mar.

2021

Apr.

2021

May

2021

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

Mar.

2021

Apr.

2021

May

2021

June

2021

July

2021p

Total............................................... 5,392 5,436 5,803 5,330 5,612 5,786 3.9 3.8 4.0 3.7 3.8 3.9

INDUSTRY

Total private................................... 4,949 5,100 5,478 5,047 5,350 5,515 4.2 4.2 4.5 4.1 4.3 4.4

Mining and logging......................... 25 14 20 21 19 17 4.2 2.3 3.3 3.4 3.0 2.6

Construction................................ 347 358 349 334 379 391 4.8 4.8 4.7 4.5 5.1 5.3

Manufacturing.............................. 378 402 427 380 427 423 3.1 3.3 3.5 3.1 3.5 3.4

Durable goods........................... 220 229 240 199 237 223 2.9 3.0 3.2 2.6 3.1 2.9

Nondurable goods....................... 158 172 187 181 191 200 3.5 3.7 4.0 3.9 4.1 4.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . .. 1,126 1,120 1,313 1,174 1,267 1,273 4.3 4.1 4.8 4.3 4.6 4.7

Wholesale trade......................... 137 141 169 142 142 172 2.5 2.5 3.0 2.5 2.5 3.0

Retail trade............................... 713 726 832 768 861 879 4.8 4.8 5.5 5.0 5.6 5.7

Transportation, warehousing, and

utilities.................................. 276 253 312 264 265 222 4.7 4.0 5.0 4.2 4.2 3.5

Information.................................. 64 89 84 78 88 80 2.5 3.3 3.1 2.9 3.2 2.9

Financial activities......................... 208 198 200 195 203 204 2.4 2.3 2.3 2.2 2.3 2.3

Finance and insurance................. 129 132 139 135 143 139 2.0 2.0 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.1

Real estate and rental and leasing. .. 80 66 61 60 60 65 3.7 2.9 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.8

Professional and business services. . . .. 1,058 1,058 1,126 969 1,100 1,199 5.4 5.1 5.4 4.7 5.3 5.7

Education and health services........... 706 678 721 691 719 701 3.1 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.1 3.0

Educational services.................... 82 80 92 68 65 67 2.4 2.3 2.7 1.9 1.8 1.9

Health care and social assistance. . .. 624 598 628 624 654 633 3.2 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.2

Leisure and hospitality.................... 844 981 1,021 987 955 995 6.6 7.1 7.2 6.9 6.5 6.6

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. .. 132 116 108 122 120 125 8.1 6.4 5.7 6.2 5.9 5.9

Accommodation and food services. .. 712 865 913 866 834 870 6.4 7.2 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.7

Other services.............................. 194 203 218 216 193 233 3.6 3.7 3.9 3.9 3.4 4.1

Government................................... 443 335 325 284 262 271 2.1 1.6 1.5 1.3 1.2 1.2

Federal...................................... 45 36 38 44 50 41 1.6 1.3 1.3 1.5 1.7 1.4

State and local............................. 397 299 287 240 212 229 2.1 1.6 1.5 1.3 1.1 1.2

State and local education.............. 263 149 143 104 57 75 2.7 1.5 1.5 1.1 0.6 0.7

State and local, excluding

education.............................. 135 150 144 136 155 154 1.5 1.7 1.6 1.5 1.7 1.7

REGION3

Northeast...................................... 812 815 838 784 815 913 3.2 3.1 3.2 3.0 3.1 3.4

South........................................... 1,999 2,197 2,350 2,119 2,219 2,282 3.9 4.2 4.4 4.0 4.1 4.2

Midwest........................................ 1,233 1,200 1,268 1,209 1,296 1,281 4.1 3.9 4.1 3.9 4.1 4.0

West............................................ 1,348 1,223 1,347 1,218 1,281 1,310 4.1 3.6 4.0 3.6 3.8 3.8

1 Total separations are the number of total separations during the entire month.

2 The total separations rate is the number of total separations during the entire month as a percent of total employment.

3 The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona,

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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Table 4. Quits levels and rates by industry and region, seasonally adjusted1

Industry and region

Levels (in thousands) Rates2

July

2020

Mar.

2021

Apr.

2021

May

2021

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

Mar.

2021

Apr.

2021

May

2021

June

2021

July

2021p

Total............................................... 3,182 3,568 3,992 3,630 3,870 3,977 2.3 2.5 2.8 2.5 2.7 2.7

INDUSTRY

Total private................................... 2,936 3,387 3,810 3,470 3,713 3,815 2.5 2.8 3.1 2.8 3.0 3.1

Mining and logging......................... 10 9 11 10 12 10 1.7 1.5 1.9 1.7 1.9 1.5

Construction................................ 145 198 176 156 185 199 2.0 2.7 2.4 2.1 2.5 2.7

Manufacturing.............................. 191 262 286 245 304 295 1.6 2.1 2.3 2.0 2.5 2.4

Durable goods........................... 106 150 155 120 163 152 1.4 2.0 2.0 1.6 2.1 2.0

Nondurable goods....................... 85 113 132 126 141 143 1.9 2.4 2.8 2.7 3.0 3.0

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . .. 757 787 947 851 905 956 2.9 2.9 3.5 3.1 3.3 3.5

Wholesale trade......................... 89 89 111 90 105 139 1.6 1.6 2.0 1.6 1.8 2.4

Retail trade............................... 524 543 629 596 637 678 3.6 3.6 4.1 3.9 4.2 4.4

Transportation, warehousing, and

utilities.................................. 144 155 206 166 164 139 2.4 2.5 3.3 2.6 2.6 2.2

Information.................................. 38 57 52 45 48 50 1.4 2.1 1.9 1.6 1.8 1.8

Financial activities......................... 94 122 141 121 127 133 1.1 1.4 1.6 1.4 1.4 1.5

Finance and insurance................. 57 80 102 86 78 82 0.9 1.2 1.6 1.3 1.2 1.2

Real estate and rental and leasing. .. 37 42 40 35 49 52 1.7 1.9 1.8 1.6 2.2 2.3

Professional and business services. . . .. 572 613 763 614 684 684 2.9 2.9 3.7 3.0 3.3 3.3

Education and health services........... 488 507 551 523 548 568 2.1 2.2 2.4 2.2 2.3 2.4

Educational services.................... 41 46 52 51 46 51 1.2 1.3 1.5 1.5 1.3 1.4

Health care and social assistance. . .. 447 460 499 472 502 516 2.3 2.3 2.5 2.4 2.5 2.6

Leisure and hospitality.................... 519 703 752 762 772 780 4.0 5.1 5.3 5.3 5.2 5.1

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. .. 39 52 57 59 66 70 2.4 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.3

Accommodation and food services. .. 480 650 695 703 706 710 4.3 5.4 5.7 5.7 5.5 5.4

Other services.............................. 121 129 131 143 128 141 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.6 2.3 2.5

Government................................... 246 181 182 160 156 162 1.1 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7

Federal...................................... 19 16 18 22 25 20 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.8 0.9 0.7

State and local............................. 227 164 165 138 131 142 1.2 0.9 0.9 0.7 0.7 0.7

State and local education.............. 147 84 84 64 34 48 1.5 0.9 0.9 0.7 0.3 0.5

State and local, excluding

education.............................. 80 80 81 74 97 94 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.8 1.1 1.1

REGION3

Northeast...................................... 438 491 507 458 531 579 1.7 1.9 1.9 1.7 2.0 2.2

South........................................... 1,202 1,505 1,696 1,487 1,561 1,584 2.3 2.8 3.2 2.8 2.9 2.9

Midwest........................................ 790 780 873 827 889 898 2.6 2.5 2.8 2.6 2.8 2.8

West............................................ 752 792 916 858 888 915 2.3 2.3 2.7 2.5 2.6 2.7

1 Quits are the number of quits during the entire month.

2 The quits rate is the number of quits during the entire month as a percent of total employment.

3 The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona,

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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Table 5. Layoffs and discharges levels and rates by industry and region, seasonally adjusted1

Industry and region

Levels (in thousands) Rates2

July

2020

Mar.

2021

Apr.

2021

May

2021

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

Mar.

2021

Apr.

2021

May

2021

June

2021

July

2021p

Total............................................... 1,845 1,525 1,450 1,353 1,354 1,459 1.3 1.1 1.0 0.9 0.9 1.0

INDUSTRY

Total private................................... 1,741 1,433 1,365 1,281 1,300 1,399 1.5 1.2 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.1

Mining and logging......................... 14 4 7 8 6 5 2.3 0.6 1.2 1.3 0.9 0.8

Construction................................ 189 149 158 160 183 177 2.6 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.5 2.4

Manufacturing.............................. 165 119 112 110 101 109 1.4 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.9

Durable goods........................... 101 65 65 64 59 60 1.3 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8

Nondurable goods....................... 63 54 47 45 42 49 1.4 1.2 1.0 1.0 0.9 1.0

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . .. 310 279 278 278 298 264 1.2 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.0

Wholesale trade......................... 45 41 45 45 26 27 0.8 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.5 0.5

Retail trade............................... 166 148 148 149 189 165 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.2 1.1

Transportation, warehousing, and

utilities.................................. 100 90 85 84 83 72 1.7 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.3 1.1

Information.................................. 22 27 24 27 30 26 0.8 1.0 0.9 1.0 1.1 0.9

Financial activities......................... 80 63 38 43 42 40 0.9 0.7 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4

Finance and insurance................. 45 40 21 24 37 29 0.7 0.6 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.4

Real estate and rental and leasing. .. 35 23 17 19 4 10 1.6 1.0 0.7 0.8 0.2 0.5

Professional and business services. . . .. 414 357 292 278 307 414 2.1 1.7 1.4 1.3 1.5 2.0

Education and health services........... 185 130 142 122 115 96 0.8 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.4

Educational services.................... 39 29 35 14 15 14 1.2 0.8 1.0 0.4 0.4 0.4

Health care and social assistance. . .. 146 102 107 108 100 81 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4

Leisure and hospitality.................... 298 244 235 199 160 182 2.3 1.8 1.7 1.4 1.1 1.2

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. .. 90 61 48 55 53 52 5.5 3.4 2.5 2.8 2.6 2.5

Accommodation and food services. .. 208 182 187 144 106 130 1.9 1.5 1.5 1.2 0.8 1.0

Other services.............................. 65 61 77 57 59 86 1.2 1.1 1.4 1.0 1.0 1.5

Government................................... 104 92 86 72 54 61 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.3

Federal...................................... 12 9 9 9 10 8 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3

State and local............................. 92 83 77 63 43 52 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.3

State and local education.............. 63 42 39 27 15 19 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.2

State and local, excluding

education.............................. 29 41 38 36 29 33 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4

REGION3

Northeast...................................... 313 263 269 273 216 257 1.2 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.8 1.0

South........................................... 660 562 519 491 518 565 1.3 1.1 1.0 0.9 1.0 1.0

Midwest........................................ 369 349 321 315 324 304 1.2 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0

West............................................ 503 351 341 274 295 334 1.5 1.0 1.0 0.8 0.9 1.0

1

Layoffs and discharges are the number of layoffs and discharges during the entire month.

2 The layoffs and discharges rate is the number of layoffs and discharges during the entire month as a percent of total employment.

3 The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona,

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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Table 6. Other separations levels and rates by industry and region, seasonally adjusted1

Industry and region

Levels (in thousands) Rates2

July

2020

Mar.

2021

Apr.

2021

May

2021

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

Mar.

2021

Apr.

2021

May

2021

June

2021

July

2021p

Total............................................... 365 343 360 347 389 350 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2

INDUSTRY

Total private................................... 273 280 303 295 337 302 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2

Mining and logging......................... 1 1 2 3 1 2 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.3

Construction................................ 12 10 14 19 11 15 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.2

Manufacturing.............................. 23 21 28 25 22 19 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2

Durable goods........................... 13 15 21 15 14 10 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1

Nondurable goods....................... 9 6 8 10 8 8 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . .. 58 53 88 45 64 53 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2

Wholesale trade......................... 2 11 12 8 12 7 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1

Retail trade............................... 23 35 55 23 34 36 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.2

Transportation, warehousing, and

utilities.................................. 32 7 20 14 17 11 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2

Information.................................. 5 4 8 6 11 5 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.2

Financial activities......................... 34 13 21 31 34 30 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.3

Finance and insurance................. 26 13 16 25 27 28 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4

Real estate and rental and leasing. .. 8 1 4 6 7 2 0.4 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.1

Professional and business services. . . .. 72 89 71 76 109 101 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.5

Education and health services........... 33 41 28 47 55 38 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2

Educational services.................... 1 5 6 3 4 2 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1

Health care and social assistance. . .. 31 36 22 44 52 36 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2

Leisure and hospitality.................... 27 35 34 26 24 32 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. .. 3 2 3 7 1 3 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.1

Accommodation and food services. .. 24 33 31 19 23 30 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2

Other services.............................. 8 13 10 16 7 7 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.1

Government................................... 92 63 57 52 52 48 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2

Federal...................................... 14 11 12 13 14 13 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.4

State and local............................. 79 51 46 39 38 35 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2

State and local education.............. 52 23 20 13 8 8 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1

State and local, excluding

education.............................. 26 28 25 27 30 27 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3

REGION3

Northeast...................................... 60 62 62 53 68 76 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3

South........................................... 138 129 135 140 140 133 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2

Midwest........................................ 75 71 74 67 83 80 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3

West............................................ 92 80 90 87 98 61 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2

1 Other separations are the number of other separations during the entire month.

2 The other separations rate is the number of other separations during the entire month as a percent of total employment..

3 The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona,

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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NOTE: Levels are rounded to the nearest thousand and rates are rounded to the nearest tenth. Levels and rates may round down to zero.
Table 7. Job openings levels and rates by industry and region, not seasonally adjusted1

Industry and region

Levels (in thousands) Rates2

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

Total..................................................................... 7,201 10,425 11,664 4.9 6.6 7.4

INDUSTRY

Total private.......................................................... 6,322 9,400 10,502 5.1 7.0 7.7

Mining and logging............................................... 18 27 43 2.9 4.1 6.3

Construction....................................................... 325 344 344 4.2 4.3 4.3

Manufacturing..................................................... 436 937 942 3.5 7.0 7.0

Durable goods.................................................. 237 535 498 3.0 6.5 6.1

Nondurable goods............................................. 199 402 444 4.2 7.9 8.6

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................. 1,387 2,003 2,024 5.0 6.8 6.9

Wholesale trade................................................ 201 287 290 3.5 4.8 4.8

Retail trade..................................................... 876 1,228 1,217 5.6 7.4 7.3

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities.................. 311 488 516 5.0 7.2 7.6

Information........................................................ 100 152 194 3.7 5.3 6.6

Financial activities................................................ 323 334 572 3.6 3.6 6.0

Finance and insurance........................................ 237 229 372 3.5 3.4 5.4

Real estate and rental and leasing.......................... 86 105 199 3.7 4.4 7.9

Professional and business services............................ 1,239 1,715 1,905 5.9 7.6 8.3

Education and health services.................................. 1,272 1,681 2,057 5.3 6.7 8.1

Educational services.......................................... 104 202 212 3.2 5.7 6.0

Health care and social assistance........................... 1,169 1,479 1,845 5.7 6.9 8.4

Leisure and hospitality........................................... 912 1,775 1,954 6.4 10.3 11.0

Arts, entertainment, and recreation.......................... 82 223 229 4.2 8.9 8.7

Accommodation and food services.......................... 830 1,552 1,725 6.7 10.6 11.4

Other services.................................................... 311 431 468 5.5 7.0 7.5

Government.......................................................... 879 1,026 1,162 4.1 4.5 5.3

Federal............................................................. 293 122 123 9.1 4.1 4.1

State and local.................................................... 586 903 1,039 3.3 4.6 5.5

State and local education..................................... 224 504 557 2.6 5.0 6.0

State and local, excluding education........................ 362 399 481 3.8 4.2 5.0

REGION3

Northeast............................................................. 1,227 1,772 2,111 4.6 6.2 7.3

South................................................................. 2,703 3,967 4,395 5.0 6.9 7.5

Midwest............................................................... 1,639 2,278 2,448 5.2 6.7 7.2

West.................................................................. 1,632 2,408 2,710 4.8 6.6 7.3

1

Job openings are the number of job openings on the last business day of the month.

2 The job openings rate is the number of job openings on the last business day of the month as a percent of total employment plus job openings.

3 The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona,

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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Table 8. Hires levels and rates by industry and region, not seasonally adjusted1

Industry and region

Levels (in thousands) Rates2

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

Total..................................................................... 6,818 7,809 7,379 4.9 5.3 5.0

INDUSTRY

Total private.......................................................... 6,429 7,321 6,829 5.4 5.9 5.4

Mining and logging............................................... 26 29 26 4.4 4.6 4.0

Construction....................................................... 440 441 441 5.9 5.8 5.8

Manufacturing..................................................... 399 554 485 3.3 4.5 3.9

Durable goods.................................................. 215 317 255 2.9 4.1 3.3

Nondurable goods............................................. 184 238 230 4.0 5.1 4.9

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................. 1,293 1,644 1,369 4.9 6.0 5.0

Wholesale trade................................................ 143 195 204 2.6 3.4 3.6

Retail trade..................................................... 812 1,171 906 5.5 7.6 5.9

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities.................. 338 278 259 5.8 4.4 4.2

Information........................................................ 94 96 107 3.6 3.5 3.9

Financial activities................................................ 292 240 246 3.4 2.7 2.8

Finance and insurance........................................ 152 156 162 2.3 2.4 2.5

Real estate and rental and leasing.......................... 140 84 84 6.3 3.6 3.6

Professional and business services............................ 1,186 1,329 1,355 6.0 6.3 6.4

Education and health services.................................. 959 847 917 4.2 3.6 3.9

Educational services.......................................... 130 134 136 4.2 4.0 4.1

Health care and social assistance........................... 830 713 781 4.3 3.6 3.9

Leisure and hospitality........................................... 1,498 1,766 1,570 11.2 11.5 9.9

Arts, entertainment, and recreation.......................... 208 303 209 11.1 13.3 8.7

Accommodation and food services.......................... 1,291 1,462 1,361 11.2 11.2 10.1

Other services.................................................... 241 375 312 4.5 6.5 5.4

Government.......................................................... 389 488 550 1.9 2.3 2.6

Federal............................................................. 73 37 58 2.5 1.3 2.0

State and local.................................................... 316 451 492 1.8 2.4 2.8

State and local education..................................... 155 235 325 1.9 2.4 3.7

State and local, excluding education........................ 162 216 168 1.8 2.4 1.8

REGION3

Northeast............................................................. 1,328 1,270 1,191 5.2 4.8 4.5

South................................................................. 2,475 2,966 2,910 4.8 5.5 5.4

Midwest............................................................... 1,442 1,836 1,605 4.8 5.8 5.1

West.................................................................. 1,574 1,737 1,673 4.8 5.1 4.9

1 Hires are the number of hires during the entire month.

2 The hires rate is the number of hires during the entire month as a percent of total employment.

3 The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona,

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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Table 9. Total separations levels and rates by industry and region, not seasonally adjusted1

Industry and region

Levels (in thousands) Rates2

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

Total..................................................................... 5,819 5,820 6,209 4.2 4.0 4.2

INDUSTRY

Total private.......................................................... 5,296 5,482 5,912 4.5 4.4 4.7

Mining and logging............................................... 26 15 18 4.3 2.4 2.7

Construction....................................................... 362 352 411 4.9 4.6 5.4

Manufacturing..................................................... 395 426 437 3.3 3.4 3.5

Durable goods.................................................. 234 234 230 3.1 3.0 3.0

Nondurable goods............................................. 161 193 206 3.5 4.1 4.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................. 1,152 1,237 1,292 4.4 4.5 4.7

Wholesale trade................................................ 151 142 184 2.7 2.5 3.2

Retail trade..................................................... 723 861 911 4.9 5.6 5.9

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities.................. 278 234 197 4.8 3.7 3.2

Information........................................................ 69 93 84 2.6 3.4 3.0

Financial activities................................................ 223 215 221 2.6 2.4 2.5

Finance and insurance........................................ 132 140 147 2.0 2.1 2.2

Real estate and rental and leasing.......................... 91 75 74 4.1 3.3 3.2

Professional and business services............................ 1,086 1,123 1,256 5.5 5.4 6.0

Education and health services.................................. 826 832 821 3.7 3.6 3.5

Educational services.......................................... 107 111 85 3.4 3.3 2.6

Health care and social assistance........................... 719 721 736 3.7 3.6 3.7

Leisure and hospitality........................................... 935 985 1,103 7.0 6.4 7.0

Arts, entertainment, and recreation.......................... 125 99 121 6.7 4.3 5.1

Accommodation and food services.......................... 810 886 982 7.0 6.8 7.3

Other services.................................................... 223 202 270 4.1 3.5 4.7

Government.......................................................... 523 338 297 2.6 1.6 1.4

Federal............................................................. 45 48 39 1.5 1.7 1.3

State and local.................................................... 478 290 258 2.7 1.5 1.4

State and local education..................................... 336 123 96 4.0 1.3 1.1

State and local, excluding education........................ 142 167 162 1.6 1.8 1.8

REGION3

Northeast............................................................. 824 858 920 3.3 3.2 3.5

South................................................................. 2,226 2,299 2,515 4.4 4.3 4.7

Midwest............................................................... 1,303 1,330 1,326 4.3 4.2 4.2

West.................................................................. 1,467 1,332 1,448 4.5 3.9 4.2

1 Total separations are the number of total separations during the entire month.

2 The total separations rate is the number of total separations during the entire month as a percent of total employment.

3 The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona,

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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Table 10. Quits levels and rates by industry and region, not seasonally adjusted1

Industry and region

Levels (in thousands) Rates2

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

Total..................................................................... 3,634 4,122 4,491 2.6 2.8 3.1

INDUSTRY

Total private.......................................................... 3,357 3,912 4,314 2.8 3.1 3.4

Mining and logging............................................... 12 11 12 2.1 1.8 1.9

Construction....................................................... 185 192 243 2.5 2.5 3.2

Manufacturing..................................................... 214 312 317 1.8 2.5 2.5

Durable goods.................................................. 118 164 160 1.6 2.1 2.1

Nondurable goods............................................. 96 148 157 2.1 3.1 3.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................. 816 932 1,030 3.1 3.4 3.8

Wholesale trade................................................ 95 108 145 1.7 1.9 2.5

Retail trade..................................................... 558 667 732 3.8 4.4 4.8

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities.................. 163 157 153 2.8 2.5 2.5

Information........................................................ 42 45 56 1.6 1.6 2.0

Financial activities................................................ 108 132 149 1.2 1.5 1.7

Finance and insurance........................................ 68 76 93 1.0 1.2 1.4

Real estate and rental and leasing.......................... 40 56 57 1.8 2.4 2.4

Professional and business services............................ 628 730 753 3.2 3.5 3.6

Education and health services.................................. 559 598 656 2.5 2.6 2.8

Educational services.......................................... 56 69 65 1.8 2.1 2.0

Health care and social assistance........................... 503 529 591 2.6 2.6 3.0

Leisure and hospitality........................................... 639 829 921 4.8 5.4 5.8

Arts, entertainment, and recreation.......................... 56 72 90 3.0 3.2 3.8

Accommodation and food services.......................... 582 757 831 5.1 5.8 6.2

Other services.................................................... 154 131 177 2.9 2.3 3.1

Government.......................................................... 277 210 177 1.4 1.0 0.8

Federal............................................................. 19 25 19 0.6 0.9 0.7

State and local.................................................... 258 185 157 1.5 1.0 0.9

State and local education..................................... 172 73 54 2.1 0.8 0.6

State and local, excluding education........................ 87 112 103 1.0 1.2 1.1

REGION3

Northeast............................................................. 483 575 628 1.9 2.2 2.4

South................................................................. 1,417 1,659 1,834 2.8 3.1 3.4

Midwest............................................................... 880 942 991 2.9 3.0 3.1

West.................................................................. 854 945 1,038 2.6 2.8 3.0

1 Quits are the number of quits during the entire month.

2 The quits rate is the number of quits during the entire month as a percent of total employment.

3 The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona,

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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Table 11. Layoffs and discharges levels and rates by industry and region, not seasonally adjusted1

Industry and region

Levels (in thousands) Rates2

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

Total..................................................................... 1,789 1,286 1,341 1.3 0.9 0.9

INDUSTRY

Total private.......................................................... 1,658 1,231 1,278 1.4 1.0 1.0

Mining and logging............................................... 13 3 4 2.1 0.4 0.6

Construction....................................................... 166 153 153 2.2 2.0 2.0

Manufacturing..................................................... 156 92 100 1.3 0.7 0.8

Durable goods.................................................. 101 55 59 1.3 0.7 0.8

Nondurable goods............................................. 55 37 41 1.2 0.8 0.9

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................. 273 245 203 1.0 0.9 0.7

Wholesale trade................................................ 52 23 30 0.9 0.4 0.5

Retail trade..................................................... 140 162 141 1.0 1.1 0.9

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities.................. 81 60 32 1.4 1.0 0.5

Information........................................................ 22 37 24 0.8 1.4 0.9

Financial activities................................................ 82 45 40 0.9 0.5 0.4

Finance and insurance........................................ 40 38 25 0.6 0.6 0.4

Real estate and rental and leasing.......................... 42 8 15 1.9 0.3 0.7

Professional and business services............................ 384 287 391 1.9 1.4 1.9

Education and health services.................................. 231 174 127 1.0 0.7 0.5

Educational services.......................................... 46 33 16 1.5 1.0 0.5

Health care and social assistance........................... 185 141 111 0.9 0.7 0.6

Leisure and hospitality........................................... 270 133 149 2.0 0.9 0.9

Arts, entertainment, and recreation.......................... 66 26 29 3.5 1.1 1.2

Accommodation and food services.......................... 205 107 121 1.8 0.8 0.9

Other services.................................................... 61 62 86 1.1 1.1 1.5

Government.......................................................... 130 55 63 0.6 0.3 0.3

Federal............................................................. 12 9 7 0.4 0.3 0.2

State and local.................................................... 118 46 56 0.7 0.2 0.3

State and local education..................................... 95 26 30 1.1 0.3 0.3

State and local, excluding education........................ 23 20 26 0.3 0.2 0.3

REGION3

Northeast............................................................. 272 210 204 1.1 0.8 0.8

South................................................................. 670 498 551 1.3 0.9 1.0

Midwest............................................................... 346 300 254 1.1 0.9 0.8

West.................................................................. 502 279 332 1.5 0.8 1.0

1

Layoffs and discharges are the number of layoffs and discharges during the entire month.

2 The layoffs and discharges rate is the number of layoffs and discharges during the entire month as a percent of total employment.

3 The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona,

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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Table 12. Other separations levels and rates by industry and region, not seasonally adjusted1

Industry and region

Levels (in thousands) Rates2

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

July

2020

June

2021

July

2021p

Total..................................................................... 396 412 377 0.3 0.3 0.3

INDUSTRY

Total private.......................................................... 281 339 320 0.2 0.3 0.3

Mining and logging............................................... 1 1 2 0.1 0.2 0.2

Construction....................................................... 11 7 15 0.1 0.1 0.2

Manufacturing..................................................... 24 22 20 0.2 0.2 0.2

Durable goods.................................................. 15 14 12 0.2 0.2 0.2

Nondurable goods............................................. 9 8 8 0.2 0.2 0.2

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................. 63 60 60 0.2 0.2 0.2

Wholesale trade................................................ 4 11 10 0.1 0.2 0.2

Retail trade..................................................... 25 32 38 0.2 0.2 0.2

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities.................. 34 16 12 0.6 0.3 0.2

Information........................................................ 5 11 4 0.2 0.4 0.2

Financial activities................................................ 33 38 32 0.4 0.4 0.4

Finance and insurance........................................ 24 26 30 0.4 0.4 0.5

Real estate and rental and leasing.......................... 9 12 2 0.4 0.5 0.1

Professional and business services............................ 74 107 111 0.4 0.5 0.5

Education and health services.................................. 36 61 38 0.2 0.3 0.2

Educational services.......................................... 4 9 4 0.1 0.3 0.1

Health care and social assistance........................... 32 52 34 0.2 0.3 0.2

Leisure and hospitality........................................... 26 23 33 0.2 0.1 0.2

Arts, entertainment, and recreation.......................... 3 1 2 0.1 0.0 0.1

Accommodation and food services.......................... 23 22 30 0.2 0.2 0.2

Other services.................................................... 8 9 6 0.2 0.2 0.1

Government.......................................................... 115 73 57 0.6 0.3 0.3

Federal............................................................. 14 14 13 0.5 0.5 0.4

State and local.................................................... 102 60 44 0.6 0.3 0.2

State and local education..................................... 70 24 12 0.8 0.2 0.1

State and local, excluding education........................ 32 35 32 0.3 0.4 0.3

REGION3

Northeast............................................................. 70 74 87 0.3 0.3 0.3

South................................................................. 138 142 130 0.3 0.3 0.2

Midwest............................................................... 76 88 81 0.3 0.3 0.3

West.................................................................. 112 108 78 0.3 0.3 0.2

1 Other separations are the number of other separations during the entire month.

2 The other separations rate is the number of other separations during the entire month as a percent of total employment.

3 The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona,

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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NOTE: Levels are rounded to the nearest thousand and rates are rounded to the nearest tenth. Levels and rates may round down to zero.