LinkedIn Workforce Report | United States | July 2025
With over 225 million LinkedIn members in the United States, we have unique insight into the real-time dynamics of Americans starting new jobs and moving to new cities. This month’s LinkedIn Workforce Report looks at our latest national data on hiring and migration trends through June 2025.
For more insight into localized employment trends in 20 of the largest U.S. metro areas, check out this month’s reports for: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland-Akron, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.
Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Whether you’re a worker, an employer, a new grad, or a policymaker, we hope you’ll use these insights to better understand and navigate the dynamics of today’s economy.
Key Insights:
Nationally, hiring across all industries slowed 8.4% from May to June, declining 12.0% compared to June 2024. This slowdown continues the hiring deceleration observed in March and April that briefly reversed in May. Hiring remains slow overall—down 9% since January and down 25% compared to pre-pandemic times (June 2019).
Hiring decreased in all 20 industries from May to June, reversing broad gains in May. The industries with the strongest month-over-month performance in June were Hospitals and Health Care (-4.2%), Consumer Services (-4.2%), and Administrative and Support Services (-4.7%). Hiring decelerated the most month-over-month in Financial Services (-17.8%), Technology, Information, and Media (-12.4%), and Professional Services (-11.7%). Government Administration continues to see hiring slow significantly compared to last year with hiring down -17.7% year-over-year, second worst only to Wholesale (-20.6%).
- Hiring slowed in all 20 metro areas we track from May to June. Minneapolis-St. Paul (-3.9%), St. Louis (-4.6%), and Nashville (-6.2%) had the strongest month-over-month performance. New York City (-18.3%), Austin (-12.7%), and Washington, D.C. (-12.4%) saw the largest slowdowns in hiring from May to June. Hiring is down year-over-year across all metros in June.
Hiring
The LinkedIn hiring rate is a measure of hires divided by LinkedIn membership. Nationally, across all industries, hiring in the U.S. was 8.4% lower in June 2025 compared to last month May 2025. National hiring was 12% lower in June 2025 compared to last year June 2024.
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED HIRING
The industries with the most notable hiring shifts month-to-month in June 2025 were Hospitals and Health Care (4.2% lower); Consumer Services (4.2% lower); and Administrative and Support Services (4.7% lower).
Table 1: Hiring on LinkedIn, by Industry, through June 2025
Industry | Jun-24 | ··· | Mar-25 | Apr-25 | May-25 | Jun-25 | MoM% Change | YoY% Change |
Accommodation and Food Services | 0.87 | ··· | 0.87 | 0.87 | 0.92 | 0.84 | -9.2 | -3.4 |
Administrative and Support Services | 0.79 | ··· | 0.81 | 0.79 | 0.80 | 0.76 | -4.7 | -3.1 |
Construction | 1.24 | ··· | 1.13 | 1.11 | 1.22 | 1.13 | -7 | -8.7 |
Consumer Services | 1.13 | ··· | 1.12 | 1.10 | 1.09 | 1.05 | -4.2 | -7.2 |
Education | 1.14 | ··· | 1.07 | 1.12 | 1.14 | 1.04 | -8.9 | -9.3 |
Entertainment Providers | 0.92 | ··· | 0.87 | 0.87 | 0.90 | 0.85 | -5.3 | -7 |
Farming, Ranching, Forestry | 1.08 | ··· | 0.90 | 0.97 | 1.07 | 1.00 | -6.4 | -6.8 |
Financial Services | 0.99 | ··· | 1.00 | 0.97 | 1.04 | 0.86 | -17.8 | -13.2 |
Government Administration | 1.10 | ··· | 0.93 | 0.93 | 0.98 | 0.91 | -7.5 | -17.8 |
Holding Companies | 0.81 | ··· | 0.69 | 0.72 | 0.77 | 0.72 | -5.7 | -10.5 |
Hospitals and Health Care | 1.11 | ··· | 1.05 | 1.05 | 1.09 | 1.05 | -4.2 | -5.8 |
Manufacturing | 0.92 | ··· | 0.81 | 0.80 | 0.84 | 0.77 | -8.5 | -17 |
Oil, Gas, and Mining | 0.90 | ··· | 0.84 | 0.78 | 0.81 | 0.75 | -7 | -16.1 |
Professional Services | 0.91 | ··· | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.87 | 0.77 | -11.7 | -15.6 |
Real Estate and Equipment Rental Services | 0.93 | ··· | 0.87 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.85 | -4.8 | -9.1 |
Retail | 0.78 | ··· | 0.77 | 0.77 | 0.75 | 0.70 | -7.6 | -11.3 |
Technology, Information and Media | 0.85 | ··· | 0.84 | 0.85 | 0.88 | 0.77 | -12.4 | -9.3 |
Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage | 0.98 | ··· | 0.97 | 0.99 | 0.96 | 0.87 | -9.4 | -11.5 |
Utilities | 1.24 | ··· | 1.09 | 1.05 | 1.17 | 1.09 | -6.8 | -12.3 |
Wholesale | 0.81 | ··· | 0.77 | 0.73 | 0.68 | 0.64 | -5.9 | -20.7 |
Methodology: “Hiring Rate” is the count of hires (LinkedIn members in each industry who added a new employer to their profile in the same month the new job began), divided by the total number of LinkedIn members in the U.S. By only analyzing the timeliest data, we can make accurate month-to-month comparisons and account for any potential lags in members updating their profiles. This number is indexed to the average month in 2016 for each industry; for example, an index of 1.05 indicates a hiring rate that is 5% higher than the average month in 2016.
Check out our reports for: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland-Akron, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. to see which jobs are open.
