United States Job Offers

Last Release

Jul 31, 2025

Actual

7,181

Units In

Thousand

7,437

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Sep 30, 2025

Time to Release

26 Days 18 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
11,549 Mar 2022	2,232 Jul 2009	5,460 Thousand	2000-2025	U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

In the United States, job openings refer to all positions that are open (not filled) on the last business day of the month. Job openings are part of the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). The survey collects data from around 16400 nonfarm establishments including retailers and manufacturers, as well as federal, state, and local government entities in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The JOLTS assesses the unmet demand for labor in the U.S. labor market and gained attention in 2014 as favorite labor market indicator of Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.

Latest Updates

Job openings in the US fell by 176,000 to 7.18 million in July 2025, the lowest level since September 2024 and well below market expectations of 7.4 million. The largest declines came from health care and social assistance (-181,000), arts, entertainment, and recreation (-62,000), and mining and logging (-13,000). Regionally, openings dropped most in the South (-161,000), followed by the Northeast (-101,000) and the Midwest (-27,000), while the West bucked the trend with an increase of 113,000 openings.