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	Feb. 2025	Jan. 2026	Feb. 2026(p)	Feb. 2025	Jan. 2026	Feb. 2026(p)	Feb. 2025	Jan. 2026	Feb. 2026(p)
LEVELS BY INDUSTRY (in thousands)

Total	7,242	7,240	6,882	5,236	5,347	4,849	5,285	5,144	4,971
Total private	6,367	6,488	6,181	4,903	5,026	4,523	4,950	4,820	4,657
Mining and logging	19	29	17	20	14	20	20	17	19
Construction	255	230	202	348	362	274	338	315	281
Manufacturing	400	510	439	310	290	286	321	295	295
Durable goods	272	330	298	186	164	160	195	165	169
Nondurable goods	128	180	141	124	126	126	127	130	126
Trade, transportation, and utilities	1,008	1,157	1,149	1,064	1,001	991	1,102	993	1,059
Wholesale trade	166	169	143	151	141	129	143	143	117
Retail trade	519	677	701	621	582	608	668	579	665
Transportation, warehousing, and utilities	322	311	306	292	277	254	292	270	278
Information	125	100	91	74	91	87	84	95	109
Financial activities	438	429	401	210	157	197	193	181	183
Finance and insurance	268	340	337	141	101	137	124	124	124
Real estate and rental and leasing	170	89	64	68	56	61	68	57	59
Professional and business services	1,222	1,196	1,260	1,023	1,018	864	1,012	1,002	890
Private education and health services	1,625	1,453	1,375	800	811	708	738	689	704
Private educational services	168	123	96	90	88	88	80	75	91
Health care and social assistance	1,457	1,330	1,279	710	723	620	658	615	612
Leisure and hospitality	994	1,119	906	823	1,081	896	914	1,035	924
Arts, entertainment, and recreation	141	128	126	172	154	146	184	160	149
Accommodation and food services	853	991	780	651	927	749	730	876	775
Other services	281	263	340	231	202	201	228	197	193
Government	875	752	701	333	321	326	335	324	315
Federal	118	92	89	25	28	25	37	47	31
State and local	756	660	612	308	293	301	298	277	283
State and local education	287	263	250	158	144	141	164	140	144
State and local, excluding education	469	397	362	150	149	160	135	137	139



RATES BY INDUSTRY (percent)

Total	4.4	4.4	4.2	3.3	3.4	3.1	3.3	3.2	3.1
Total private	4.5	4.6	4.4	3.6	3.7	3.3	3.7	3.6	3.4
Mining and logging	3.0	4.6	2.7	3.2	2.4	3.3	3.2	2.9	3.2
Construction	3.0	2.7	2.4	4.2	4.4	3.3	4.1	3.8	3.4
Manufacturing	3.1	3.9	3.4	2.4	2.3	2.3	2.5	2.3	2.3
Durable goods	3.4	4.1	3.7	2.4	2.1	2.0	2.5	2.1	2.2
Nondurable goods	2.6	3.6	2.9	2.6	2.6	2.6	2.6	2.7	2.6
Trade, transportation, and utilities	3.4	3.9	3.9	3.7	3.5	3.5	3.8	3.5	3.7
Wholesale trade	2.7	2.7	2.3	2.5	2.3	2.1	2.4	2.4	1.9
Retail trade	3.3	4.2	4.3	4.0	3.8	3.9	4.3	3.8	4.3
Transportation, warehousing, and utilities	4.2	4.2	4.1	4.0	3.9	3.6	4.0	3.8	3.9
Information	4.2	3.4	3.1	2.6	3.2	3.1	2.9	3.4	3.9
Financial activities	4.5	4.5	4.2	2.3	1.7	2.2	2.1	2.0	2.0
Finance and insurance	3.8	4.8	4.8	2.1	1.5	2.0	1.8	1.8	1.9
Real estate and rental and leasing	6.5	3.5	2.6	2.8	2.3	2.5	2.8	2.3	2.4
Professional and business services	5.2	5.1	5.3	4.6	4.5	3.9	4.5	4.5	4.0
Private education and health services	5.7	5.0	4.7	3.0	2.9	2.6	2.7	2.5	2.5
Private educational services	4.0	2.9	2.3	2.2	2.2	2.2	2.0	1.8	2.3
Health care and social assistance	6.0	5.3	5.1	3.1	3.0	2.6	2.9	2.6	2.6
Leisure and hospitality	5.6	6.2	5.1	4.9	6.4	5.3	5.4	6.1	5.5
Arts, entertainment, and recreation	5.0	4.6	4.5	6.5	5.8	5.5	6.9	6.0	5.6
Accommodation and food services	5.7	6.5	5.2	4.6	6.5	5.3	5.2	6.1	5.4
Other services	4.5	4.2	5.3	3.9	3.3	3.3	3.8	3.3	3.2
Government	3.6	3.1	2.9	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.3
Federal	3.8	3.3	3.2	0.8	1.0	0.9	1.2	1.7	1.2
State and local	3.5	3.1	2.9	1.5	1.4	1.5	1.5	1.3	1.4
State and local education	2.6	2.4	2.3	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.5	1.3	1.3
State and local, excluding education	4.6	3.9	3.6	1.5	1.5	1.6	1.4	1.4	1.4
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: March 31, 2026