US state labor-turnover intelligence from the BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey bulk flat files (keyless, U.S. public domain): all 50 states plus DC, monthly estimates December 2000 to December 2025, seasonally adjusted total nonfarm. Levels (thousands) and rates (percent) for job openings, hires, total separations, quits, and layoffs & discharges, plus BLS's unemployed-per-job-opening ratio. Method: the closed SA state slice is resolved from jt.series (fail loud on any missing or duplicate series), monthly M01-M12 rows pivoted wide, annual averages dropped, '-' cells kept as honest NULLs, preliminary (footnote P) months flagged. Derived signals: month-over-month change (pp for rates, pct for levels), trailing-12-month z-scores for quits/layoffs/openings rates, layoff-spike / quit-surge / hiring-freeze flags, openings-per-unemployed tightness, and a documented 0-100 labor_strength_score (equal-weighted min-max of openings/hires/quits rates and inverted layoffs rate over each state's own history) ranked monthly as strength_rank. Publication change: BLS moved State JOLTS from monthly to an ANNUAL release in July 2026 — each July publishes one more December-anchored year of monthly estimates, so the panel refreshes yearly with a 7-19 month lag (structural/analytical use: site selection, territory planning, wage-pressure analysis). Caveats: state JOLTS estimates carry larger sampling error than national figures; the score is relative to each state's history, not an absolute cross-state comparison.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Rows: 15,351
Columns: 40
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Sep 29, 2026
Theme: labor

Column	Type	Description
date	string	Reference month (first day, YYYY-MM-DD).
year	integer	Reference year.
month	integer	Reference month number (1-12).
country	string	Country name (United States).
country_code	string	ISO alpha-3 country code (USA).
state_code	string	USPS 2-letter state code.
state_name	string	State / district name.
state_fips	string	BLS 2-digit state FIPS code.
openings_k	float	Job openings level, thousands (BLS JO, SA).
openings_rate_pct	float	Job openings rate, percent (BLS JO, SA).
hires_k	float	Hires level, thousands (BLS HI, SA).
hires_rate_pct	float	Hires rate, percent (BLS HI, SA).
separations_k	float	Total separations level, thousands (BLS TS, SA).
separations_rate_pct	float	Total separations rate, percent (BLS TS, SA).
quits_k	float	Quits level, thousands (BLS QU, SA).
quits_rate_pct	float	Quits rate, percent (BLS QU, SA) — worker-confidence proxy: workers quit more when they expect to find better jobs.
layoffs_k	float	Layoffs & discharges level, thousands (BLS LD, SA).
layoffs_rate_pct	float	Layoffs & discharges rate, percent (BLS LD, SA) — employer-distress proxy.
unemp_per_opening_ratio	float	BLS unemployed persons per job opening ratio (UO, SA); lower = tighter labor market.
openings_per_unemployed	float	Labor-market tightness: 1 / unemp_per_opening_ratio; job openings per unemployed person.
openings_rate_pct_mom_pp	float	Month-over-month change of the openings rate, percentage points.
hires_rate_pct_mom_pp	float	Month-over-month change of the hires rate, percentage points.
separations_rate_pct_mom_pp	float	Month-over-month change of the separations rate, percentage points.
quits_rate_pct_mom_pp	float	Month-over-month change of the quits rate, percentage points.
layoffs_rate_pct_mom_pp	float	Month-over-month change of the layoffs rate, percentage points.
openings_k_mom_pct	float	Month-over-month percent change of openings level.
hires_k_mom_pct	float	Month-over-month percent change of hires level.
quits_k_mom_pct	float	Month-over-month percent change of quits level.
layoffs_k_mom_pct	float	Month-over-month percent change of layoffs level.
quits_rate_z12	float	Trailing-12-month z-score of the quits rate (min 6 obs).
layoffs_rate_z12	float	Trailing-12-month z-score of the layoffs rate (min 6 obs).
openings_rate_z12	float	Trailing-12-month z-score of the openings rate (min 6 obs).
layoff_spike_flag	integer	1 when layoffs_rate_z12 > 2 (abnormal layoff surge).
quit_surge_flag	integer	1 when quits_rate_z12 > 2 (abnormal quit surge).
hiring_freeze_flag	integer	1 when the hires level falls >= 10% month-over-month (sharp hiring pullback).
labor_strength_score	float	0-100 gauge of how hot the state's labor market is vs its own history: 100 * mean of min-max-normalized openings, hires, quits rates and inverted layoffs rate (equal weights, documented in the connector).
strength_rank	integer	Rank of labor_strength_score within the month across states (1 = strongest; ties share the rank).
is_preliminary	integer	1 when any core series for this state-month carries BLS footnote P (preliminary; revised next release).
row_hash	string	Content hash (sha256, 16 hex) over state, date, and core rates.
source_url	string	Canonical BLS JOLTS program page.

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date	year	month	country	country_code	state_code	state_name	state_fips	openings_k	openings_rate_pct	hires_k	hires_rate_pct	separations_k	separations_rate_pct	quits_k	quits_rate_pct	layoffs_k	layoffs_rate_pct	unemp_per_opening_ratio	openings_per_unemployed	openings_rate_pct_mom_pp	hires_rate_pct_mom_pp	separations_rate_pct_mom_pp	quits_rate_pct_mom_pp	layoffs_rate_pct_mom_pp	openings_k_mom_pct	hires_k_mom_pct	quits_k_mom_pct	layoffs_k_mom_pct	quits_rate_z12	layoffs_rate_z12	openings_rate_z12	hiring_freeze_flag	labor_strength_score	strength_rank	row_hash	source_url
2000-12-01	2,000	12	United States	USA	AL	Alabama	01	68	3.4	78	4	68	3.5	38	2	24	1.2	1.5	0.667	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0	47.85	41	d0f9a0b05c0ca81b	https://www.bls.gov/jlt/
2001-01-01	2,001	1	United States	USA	AL	Alabama	01	70	3.5	81	4.2	77	4	45	2.3	25	1.3	1.4	0.714	0.1	0.2	0.5	0.3	0.1	2.941	3.846	18.421	4.167	0	0	0	0	51.91	41	57e6d028a9e14994	https://www.bls.gov/jlt/
2001-02-01	2,001	2	United States	USA	AL	Alabama	01	70	3.5	67	3.5	76	3.9	43	2.2	28	1.4	1.5	0.667	0	-0.7	-0.1	-0.1	0.1	0	-17.284	-4.444	12	0	0	0	1	44.62	51	ec805a9f9a20929c	https://www.bls.gov/jlt/
2001-03-01	2,001	3	United States	USA	AL	Alabama	01	58	2.9	86	4.4	79	4.1	42	2.2	32	1.7	1.8	0.556	-0.6	0.9	0.2	0	0.3	-17.143	28.358	-2.326	14.286	0	0	0	0	47.91	43	6596f59075fab17c	https://www.bls.gov/jlt/
2001-04-01	2,001	4	United States	USA	AL	Alabama	01	65	3.3	86	4.5	80	4.1	48	2.5	27	1.4	1.6	0.625	0.4	0.1	0	0.3	-0.3	12.069	0	14.286	-15.625	0	0	0	0	54.73	25	82e6eed8582d9bdd	https://www.bls.gov/jlt/
2001-05-01	2,001	5	United States	USA	AL	Alabama	01	67	3.4	79	4.1	73	3.8	43	2.2	25	1.3	1.6	0.625	0.1	-0.4	-0.3	-0.3	-0.1	3.077	-8.14	-10.417	-7.407	-0.204	-0.484	0.296	0	49.81	31	e156db6b9a4426c1	https://www.bls.gov/jlt/
2001-06-01	2,001	6	United States	USA	AL	Alabama	01	61	3.1	70	3.6	79	4.1	46	2.4	27	1.4	1.7	0.588	-0.3	-0.5	0.3	0.2	0.1	-8.955	-11.392	6.977	8	0.883	0.091	-0.894	1	45.56	38	7df8c5f58b9547ea	https://www.bls.gov/jlt/
2001-07-01	2,001	7	United States	USA	AL	Alabama	01	63	3.2	61	3.2	71	3.7	41	2.1	25	1.3	1.7	0.588	0.1	-0.4	-0.4	-0.3	-0.1	3.279	-12.857	-10.87	-7.407	-0.86	-0.504	-0.417	1	40.64	50	41db596b327bc069	https://www.bls.gov/jlt/
2001-08-01	2,001	8	United States	USA	AL	Alabama	01	57	2.9	73	3.8	71	3.7	43	2.2	24	1.2	1.9	0.526	-0.3	0.6	0	0.1	-0.1	-9.524	19.672	4.878	-4	-0.222	-1.031	-1.465	0	45.89	36	29ce69715706a72c	https://www.bls.gov/jlt/
2001-09-01	2,001	9	United States	USA	AL	Alabama	01	60	3	73	3.8	65	3.4	39	2	20	1	1.9	0.526	0.1	0	-0.3	-0.2	-0.2	5.263	0	-9.302	-16.667	-1.317	-1.765	-0.937	0	45.76	33	d36e748d37590f0d	https://www.bls.gov/jlt/

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@misc{dz_bls_state_jolts_bls_state_jolts_monthly_cd9e7112,
  title        = {{US state labor-turnover intelligence (JOLTS)}},
  author       = {{U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/bls_state_jolts/bls_state_jolts_monthly?snapshot=20260929T144316Z-cd9e7112965a}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260929T144316Z-cd9e7112965a, sha256 cd9e7112965a1c758a3b337ee0bd55093095d942aa5ba39dd7728e0363d4ac9b; accessed 2026-09-30}
}

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