JOLTS Job Openings: release dates, results and history
JOLTS Job Openings last printed 7.08M on Tue, Sep 29, 2026 against a 7.23M consensus forecast and a 7.27M prior, a -0.68 standard-deviation surprise. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
The Fed reads JOLTS for labor demand before anything else, and Powell will name the openings-to-unemployed ratio out loud. It runs a month behind the other jobs data and still moves markets, because when the Fed talks about 'labor market rebalancing', this is the report it means. The quits rate sits inside it, the share of workers who leave a job voluntarily, and quits tend to turn before wage growth does.
The trend
How it moves Treasuries
More openings than expected is bearish for Treasuries, because tight labor demand is the Fed's reason to keep waiting. Openings coming down does the opposite and bonds rally. And it lands at 10 AM, into a fully staffed, liquid market. See it scored live on the Helious desk, or read how the standard-deviation surprise is computed.
Recent prints, as captured by the desk
| DATE | ACTUAL | FORECAST | PRIOR | SURPRISE (SD) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.08M | 7.23M | 7.27M | -0.68 | BELOW FORECAST | |
| 7.27M | 7.30M | 7.36M | -0.14 | ON THE SCREWS | |
| 7.36M | 7.40M | 7.59M | -0.18 | BELOW FORECAST |
The 3 most recent prints from the desk's live capture, which began in July 2026, so what you see here is a sample rather than the whole record. Every row links the print page published the moment that number landed, and the full graded history is served by the API.
Official series history
| PERIOD | VALUE (M OPENINGS) | PRIOR | CHANGE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.08M | 7.33M | -0.26M | |
| 7.33M | 7.18M | +0.15M | |
| 7.18M | 7.54M | -0.35M | |
| 7.54M | 7.58M | -0.05M | |
| 7.58M | 6.89M | +0.70M | |
| 6.89M | 6.92M | -0.04M | |
| 6.92M | 7.24M | -0.32M | |
| 7.24M | 6.55M | +0.69M |
These are the most recent official rows, and the chart above draws the longer series behind them. The desk-captured prints higher up the page carry the consensus forecast and the standard-deviation surprise as they stood the moment each number landed.
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Monthly, ~5 weeks after the reference month · 10:00 AM ET · download a sample (CSV, recent rows), free to cite with a link to this page. The full history comes through the Helious API and MCP at api.helious.io/mcp, with depth set by plan.