{"id":435411,"date":"2026-08-04T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/jolts-job-openings-7-359m-vs-7-400m-estimate-lower-than-last-month-435411\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:00:59","slug":"jolts-job-openings-7-359m-vs-7-400m-estimate-lower-than-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/jolts-job-openings-7-359m-vs-7-400m-estimate-lower-than-last-month-435411\/","title":{"rendered":"JOLTs job openings 7.359M vs 7.400M estimate.  Lower than last month."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior month 7.537M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">US JOLTS Report (June) \u2013 Key Takeaways<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Job openings were lower\u00a0at 7.357 million vs 7.537M last month with the openings rate steady at 4.4%. The estimate was for 7.400M<\/li>\n<li>Job openings increased in:\n<ul>\n<li>\nTransportation, warehousing &amp; utilities: +97K<\/li>\n<li>\nFederal government: +39K<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Job openings declined in:\n<ul>\n<li>\nWholesale trade: -74K<\/li>\n<li>\nNondurable goods manufacturing: -55K<\/li>\n<li>\nMining &amp; logging: -9K<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hiring<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hires were unchanged at 5.3 million.\n<\/li>\n<li>Hiring rate held steady at 3.4%.\n<\/li>\n<li>Federal government hires fell by 6K.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Separations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total separations were little changed at 5.4 million.\n<\/li>\n<li>Total separation rate remained at 3.4%.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nSeparation levels were essentially unchanged across all industries.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quits<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quits held steady at 3.2 million.\n<\/li>\n<li>Quits rate remained at 2.0%.\n<\/li>\n<li>Federal government quits declined by 4K.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Layoffs &amp; Discharges<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Layoffs and discharges were unchanged at 1.8 million.\n<\/li>\n<li>Layoff\/discharge rate stayed at 1.1%.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nLayoffs were little changed across all industries.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other Separations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Other separations (retirements, deaths, disabilities, transfers) were little changed at 353K.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bottom line: The June JOLTS report points to a labor market that remains broadly stable. Job openings, hiring, quits, and layoffs all showed little change, suggesting labor demand and worker mobility continue to cool gradually rather than deteriorate sharply.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior month 7.537M US JOLTS Report (June) \u2013 Key Takeaways Job openings were lower\u00a0at 7.357 million vs 7.537M last month with the openings rate steady at 4.4%. The estimate was for 7.400M&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}