The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its annual 2025 state Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey estimates and revised the monthly state series. The update covers job openings, hires, quits, layoffs and total separations across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.\n\nThe December 2025 snapshot illustrates substantial variation. The national job-openings rate was 3.9 percent. Georgia recorded a 5.2 percent rate, Oklahoma 5.3 percent and West Virginia 5.8 percent, while California and Washington were at 3.2 percent. Texas had an estimated 603,000 openings, equal to 4.0 percent of employment covered by the survey.\n\nQuits also varied. The national quits rate was 2.0 percent in December; Texas was at 2.2 percent, while South Dakota and Alaska were among the states with higher rates. Quits are generally initiated by employees and are often used as one indicator of workers' willingness or ability to change jobs.\n\nThe figures are estimates rather than a count of every opening or separation. State results can be volatile, and BLS says the newly released monthly estimates include revisions. The annual release is best read as a map of differing labor-market conditions, not as a stand-alone ranking of state economic strength.\n\nSource: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics state JOLTS release — https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jltst.nr0.htm\n\nSource: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics state job-openings chart and table — https://www.bls.gov/charts/state-job-openings-and-labor-turnover/state-job-openings-rates.htm\n\nSource: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics state quits chart and table — https://www.bls.gov/charts/state-job-openings-and-labor-turnover/state-quits-rates.htm