BLS labor turnover rates (JOLTS), seasonally adjusted
Monthly U.S. labor turnover rates from the BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for total nonfarm employment: the job openings rate, hires rate, quits rate, and layoffs and discharges rate. Rates in percent, seasonally adjusted; the job openings rate is openings as a percent of employment plus openings, the others are flows as a percent of total employment. The latest month is preliminary.
- Rows
- 940
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Monthly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 27, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | date | Month of observation, mapped from the BLS API 'year' and 'period' fields (for example '2026' + 'M08' becomes 2026-08-01). Only monthly periods are kept. |
| series_id | string | BLS series identifier, e.g. 'CES0000000001' or 'CUSR0000SA0'. Encodes the survey, area, item, and seasonal adjustment; formats are documented at bls.gov/help/hlpforma.htm. |
| series_label | string | Official BLS series title from the Bureau's series catalog (data.bls.gov/timeseries), e.g. 'All employees, thousands, total nonfarm, seasonally adjusted'. |
| value | float | Observed value from the BLS API 'value' field. Units follow the series definition: employment and unemployment levels are in thousands of persons/jobs, average hourly earnings in dollars, weekly hours in hours, rates in percent, and CPI/PPI series in index points. Missing observations are null. |
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/bls/bls_labor_turnover_rates" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/bls/bls_labor_turnover_rates").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/bls/bls_labor_turnover_rates
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2026). BLS labor turnover rates (JOLTS), seasonally adjusted [Data set, snapshot 20260927T190653Z-76b564409a7c, sha256 76b564409a7c]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-27, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/bls/bls_labor_turnover_rates?snapshot=20260927T190653Z-76b564409a7c
@misc{dz_bls_bls_labor_turnover_rates_76b56440,
title = {{BLS labor turnover rates (JOLTS), seasonally adjusted}},
author = {{U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/bls/bls_labor_turnover_rates?snapshot=20260927T190653Z-76b564409a7c}},
note = {Snapshot 20260927T190653Z-76b564409a7c, sha256 76b564409a7c759c67e77a06d30f40b873b297fcbca8c0267acc6bf1faa55150; accessed 2026-09-27}
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