Average Monthly Quits Rate: Trade, transportation, and utilities, United States
Verified average monthly quits rate for the selected Trade, transportation, and utilities population in United States, drawn from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025-annual).
Trade, transportation, and utilities · United States
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Where this sits
It sits 10% above the United States' all-industries figure of 2%. Across the sectors reported for the United States, average monthly quits rate runs from 0.8% in federal to 4.2% in accommodation and food services.
This is an average monthly rate: the share of employment that quit voluntarily in a typical month of the year shown. It is not an annual turnover rate and cannot be multiplied into one.
Voluntary departures in a month divided by that month's headcount, averaged over several months. Do not enter an annual turnover rate; the two are not comparable.
How Trade, transportation, and utilities compares in United States
Average monthly quits rate, same source and period. See all 28 industries.
What this means
In 2025, the quits rate in trade, transportation, and utilities in the United States averaged 2.2% of employment per month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is an average of the monthly figures, not a count of everyone who left over the course of the year, so read it as a month-by-month rate. For the same industry and period, the Bureau of Labor Statistics put the hires rate at 3.4% and the job openings rate at 3.5% per month, which shows how much hiring activity sits alongside those voluntary exits. Compare all of these against your own monthly separation data before drawing conclusions about your workforce.
Average monthly quits rate: Trade, transportation, and utilities vs regional average
| Measure | Trade, transportation, and utilities | Regional average |
|---|---|---|
| Average monthly quits rate | 2.2% | 1.8% |