BLS: Monthly Job Numbers Up Slightly in June

The development trade added 14,000 in June, in keeping with the Jobs Opening and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) launched by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The variety of openings reached 246,000, which was 39,000, or 13.7%, down from June 2024.

The hiring charge throughout the first half of 2025 was decrease than throughout the first six months of any yr for the reason that begin of the info sequence in 2000,” Anirban Basu, chief economist at Related Builders and Contractors (ABC), famous in a press launch. “Contractors have additionally been laying employees off at a traditionally gradual tempo, industrywide employment continues to edge greater, however few job openings and sluggish hiring counsel weak demand for labor.”

In June, the quantity of whole hires was 351,000, down from 358,000 in Could.

Job separations—together with layoffs, voluntary quitting and discharges – was 339,000, whereas that quantity additionally reached 358,000 in Could. Basu attributes the gradual numbers partly to weak spot within the residential sector.

“These knowledge seemingly mirror the truth that the residential section has struggled mightily this yr, whereas nonresidential employment knowledge have been extra upbeat,” stated Basu. He cites the findings of the ABC Construction Confidence Index, the place greater than three quarters of survey respondents count on workers numbers to stay the identical or develop within the second half of the yr. “This means that the nonresidential aspect of the trade will proceed so as to add jobs throughout the third and fourth quarter of 2025.”