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Hires, Quits and Layoffs
U.S. job openings and labor turnover survey, monthly rates, % of employment
1 of 3 series is above their level a year earlier
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Hires · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Quits · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Layoffs and discharges · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. A projection, not a promise.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, JOLTS, seasonally adjusted, via FRED (JTSHIR, JTSQUR, JTSLDR). Each rate is the month’s count divided by employment. The quits rate is a gauge of workers’ confidence that they can find a better job.
How fast American workers are being hired, quitting and being laid off. Quits and hires surged in the 2021–22 “Great Resignation” and have since fallen back below pre-pandemic levels, while layoffs stay low: a labor market that has cooled without breaking.
What this chart reads
- JOLTS hires rateas “Hires”behindlatest 2026-08-01
- JOLTS Quits Rateas “Quits”behindlatest 2026-08-01
- JOLTS Layoffs Rateas “Layoffs and discharges”behindlatest 2026-08-01
Sources
JOLTS hires rate. Source: Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as FRED series JTSHIR. Palanor pulls this series from the FRED API nightly.
JOLTS Quits Rate. Source: Palanor pulls this series from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. The underlying data is FRED series JTSQUR, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as part of the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
JOLTS Layoffs Rate. Source: Palanor pulls FRED series JTSLDR from the FRED API nightly. The underlying data come from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, published monthly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and seasonally adjusted.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.