Table A. Job openings, hires, and total separations by industry, seasonally adjusted

Table A. Job openings, hires, and total separations by industry, seasonally adjusted
Category	Job openings			Hires			Total separations
Category	May 2024	Apr. 2025	May 2025(p)	May 2024	Apr. 2025	May 2025(p)	May 2024	Apr. 2025	May 2025(p)
LEVELS BY INDUSTRY (in thousands)

Total	7,901	7,395	7,769	5,573	5,615	5,503	5,314	5,313	5,242
Total private	6,852	6,562	6,936	5,204	5,259	5,164	4,966	4,981	4,892
Mining and logging	24	26	19	18	24	19	22	22	18
Construction	375	242	245	390	364	361	369	357	368
Manufacturing	576	392	414	350	330	278	345	316	287
Durable goods	405	257	289	207	194	161	204	183	162
Nondurable goods	171	135	125	143	136	117	142	134	125
Trade, transportation, and utilities	985	1,036	998	1,061	979	1,005	1,064	938	1,025
Wholesale trade	167	203	176	151	130	136	153	120	132
Retail trade	487	561	490	632	575	581	639	555	601
Transportation, warehousing, and utilities	331	272	332	278	274	288	272	263	292
Information	128	165	159	82	89	77	83	78	78
Financial activities	448	418	476	210	217	223	196	239	199
Finance and insurance	339	283	374	132	144	145	115	169	127
Real estate and rental and leasing	109	135	102	77	73	77	80	71	72
Professional and business services	1,302	1,386	1,358	1,027	1,112	1,065	948	1,063	1,005
Private education and health services	1,859	1,716	1,763	879	882	799	805	795	725
Private educational services	185	168	157	96	99	93	102	91	88
Health care and social assistance	1,674	1,547	1,607	783	783	706	703	704	637
Leisure and hospitality	871	914	1,193	957	1,037	1,158	924	955	1,011
Arts, entertainment, and recreation	139	188	151	178	183	197	152	168	169
Accommodation and food services	732	727	1,041	779	854	961	771	787	842
Other services	284	267	310	231	225	179	211	217	175
Government	1,049	833	834	369	357	339	348	333	350
Federal	169	128	89	36	33	22	33	43	39
State and local	879	705	745	332	324	317	315	290	311
State and local education	265	242	261	161	165	145	179	150	155
State and local, excluding education	614	462	484	172	159	172	137	140	156



RATES BY INDUSTRY (percent)

Total	4.8	4.4	4.6	3.5	3.5	3.4	3.4	3.3	3.3
Total private	4.8	4.6	4.9	3.9	3.9	3.8	3.7	3.7	3.6
Mining and logging	3.7	4.1	3.0	2.9	3.9	3.0	3.5	3.5	3.0
Construction	4.4	2.8	2.9	4.8	4.4	4.3	4.5	4.3	4.4
Manufacturing	4.3	3.0	3.1	2.7	2.6	2.2	2.7	2.5	2.2
Durable goods	4.8	3.1	3.5	2.6	2.4	2.0	2.5	2.3	2.0
Nondurable goods	3.4	2.7	2.5	2.9	2.8	2.4	2.9	2.7	2.6
Trade, transportation, and utilities	3.3	3.4	3.3	3.7	3.4	3.5	3.7	3.2	3.5
Wholesale trade	2.7	3.2	2.8	2.5	2.1	2.2	2.5	1.9	2.1
Retail trade	3.0	3.5	3.0	4.1	3.7	3.7	4.1	3.6	3.9
Transportation, warehousing, and utilities	4.4	3.6	4.3	3.8	3.7	3.9	3.8	3.6	4.0
Information	4.2	5.3	5.1	2.8	3.0	2.6	2.8	2.7	2.6
Financial activities	4.7	4.3	4.9	2.3	2.3	2.4	2.1	2.6	2.2
Finance and insurance	4.8	4.0	5.2	2.0	2.1	2.1	1.7	2.5	1.9
Real estate and rental and leasing	4.2	5.1	3.9	3.1	2.9	3.1	3.3	2.8	2.9
Professional and business services	5.4	5.8	5.7	4.5	4.9	4.7	4.2	4.7	4.5
Private education and health services	6.6	5.9	6.1	3.3	3.2	2.9	3.1	2.9	2.7
Private educational services	4.5	4.0	3.7	2.4	2.5	2.3	2.6	2.3	2.2
Health care and social assistance	6.9	6.2	6.5	3.5	3.4	3.0	3.1	3.0	2.7
Leisure and hospitality	4.9	5.1	6.5	5.7	6.1	6.8	5.5	5.6	5.9
Arts, entertainment, and recreation	5.0	6.5	5.3	6.8	6.8	7.3	5.8	6.2	6.2
Accommodation and food services	4.9	4.8	6.8	5.5	6.0	6.7	5.4	5.5	5.9
Other services	4.5	4.2	4.9	3.9	3.7	3.0	3.5	3.6	2.9
Government	4.3	3.4	3.4	1.6	1.5	1.4	1.5	1.4	1.5
Federal	5.3	4.1	2.9	1.2	1.1	0.7	1.1	1.4	1.3
State and local	4.1	3.3	3.5	1.6	1.6	1.5	1.5	1.4	1.5
State and local education	2.4	2.2	2.3	1.5	1.5	1.3	1.7	1.4	1.4
State and local, excluding education	6.0	4.5	4.7	1.8	1.6	1.8	1.4	1.4	1.6
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
NOTE: Data are revised with the release of January data to incorporate the annual updates to the Current Employment Statistics employment estimates and the JOLTS seasonal adjustment factors.

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Last Modified Date: July 01, 2025