Information-sector workers quit at one-quarter the rate of hospitality workers
Fresh BLS data shows the June 2026 quit rate at 1.1% in Information and 4.2% in leisure and hospitality. Across nine of 11 major sectors, quitting is below its April 2022 level.
Information-sector quit rate, June 2026
Down 35.3% from April 2022 and roughly one-quarter of the hospitality rate
Careeronaut analyzed the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for all 11 major industry super-sectors from January 2022 through the latest available release, June 2026. The Information sector, which includes software publishing, telecommunications, data processing, broadcasting and publishing, recorded a 1.1% quit rate. That is down 35.3% from April 2022 and roughly one-quarter of leisure and hospitality's 4.2% rate.
The slowdown extends well beyond Information. Nine of the 11 sectors have lower quit rates than in April 2022. Financial activities recorded the largest proportional decline, falling 52.4% from 2.1% to 1.0%, followed by construction at -43.3%, manufacturing at -42.3%, and professional and business services at -42.1%. Two sectors moved against the pattern: Other services rose 16.7% and mining and logging rose 4.5%.
National quit rate has collapsed since the 2022 peak
Seasonally-adjusted monthly quits rate, % of total employment. Source: BLS JOLTS series JTS000000000000000QUR.
Leisure and hospitality quit rate
Highest of the 11 major sectors — 3.8x Information and 5.3x government
Government quit rate
The lowest of any industry. Public-sector workers stay put more than any other group
Industries where quitting declined since April 2022
Other services and mining and logging are the two exceptions
Quit rate by industry, June 2026
The Information-sector quit rate is roughly one-quarter of the hospitality rate. Source: BLS JOLTS by industry super-sector.
The national quit rate was 2.0% in June 2026, down one-third from April 2022, but the average hides a 3.4 percentage-point gap between government and hospitality. Workers' willingness to leave is therefore highly industry-specific: hospitality continues to turn over rapidly, while finance, Information and government record much lower voluntary movement. The figures describe turnover rather than worker sentiment or the cause of any change, and they should be read as a multi-year trend because JOLTS is survey-based and monthly estimates can move.
The national average makes the labor market look uniform when it is anything but. Hospitality's quit rate is nearly four times the Information-sector rate, while finance has seen the largest decline since April 2022. Looking industry by industry gives workers and employers a much more useful picture.
Largest sector decline: Financial activities
From 2.1% in April 2022 to 1.0% in June 2026
The outlier: Other services
Personal care, repair, civic and religious organizations — the only sector quitting more than at the 2022 peak
National quit rate, June 2026
Down 33.3% from the April 2022 national rate of 3.0%
Information sector hire-to-quit gap
June hires rate of 2.9% minus the 1.1% quits rate; this is not a complete measure of net employment change
Professional and business services hire-quit gap
Largest hires-minus-quits gap among the 11 sectors; layoffs and other separations are not included
Careeronaut pulled the seasonally adjusted monthly quit rate (BLS JOLTS series JTS{industry}000000000QUR) and hires rate (HIR) for each of the 11 major industry super-sectors plus the national total, covering January 2022 through the latest available BLS release (June 2026 preliminary). Industries follow the BLS JOLTS super-sector classification: Mining and logging, Construction, Manufacturing, Trade, transportation and utilities, Information, Financial activities, Professional and business services, Private education and health services, Leisure and hospitality, Other services, and Government.
BLS defines quits as voluntary separations initiated by employees, excluding retirements or transfers to other locations. The quit rate is quits as a percentage of employment. The hires rate is total hires as a percentage of employment. Careeronaut compares the June 2026 preliminary rate with April 2022, the national Great Resignation peak month, and reports the percentage change.
All figures were retrieved from the BLS Public Data API (https://www.bls.gov/jlt/) on August 7, 2026. The downloadable data and chart reproduce the series used in this analysis.
Caveats: (1) JOLTS is a sample-based survey with sampling variability; BLS recommends focusing on multi-month trends rather than a single monthly move. (2) The Information super-sector is broader than technology and includes publishing, broadcasting, telecommunications, data processing and related activities. (3) Other services is a broad category covering repair and maintenance, personal and laundry services, and membership organizations. (4) Industry super-sector estimates do not describe every occupation inside that industry. (5) Comparing one current month with April 2022 highlights the change since the national peak but does not establish why quit rates changed.
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