Labor pool · quality check
Openings ebb. The pool has to be there to fill them.
Industries hire, quit, and lay off every month. Some vacancies are growth. Some are the same job posted again after someone walked out. This page scores each opening against hires, quits, layoffs, and the unemployed people who last worked in that industry.
National pulse · June 2026
1.04 openings per unemployed person. The country is no longer short of people in total — it is short in the wrong places.
Openings are a stock; hires, quits, and layoffs are monthly flows. Unemployed is CPS June (7.1M); July fell to 6.9M (4.1% unemployment). JOLTS for July publishes September 1, 2026.
Quality check on each opening
An opening is a snapshot. Hires, quits, layoffs, and the unemployed pool say whether it is unmet need, a revolving door, or a job that already has people attached to that industry looking for work.