U.S. Workforce Turnover Dashboard

JOLTS monthly labor-market rates spanning January 2016 through December 2025, with emphasis on the Great Resignation, hiring flow, and separation mix.

120 monthly observations
2 G1 charts
3 G2 charts
1 G3 chart
Latest quits rate
Latest job openings rate
2021-2022 average quits
Months hires beat separations
Storyline at a glance
Chart mix follows the requested policy: broad context first, then flow/composition, then a deeper seasonality view.
Key turning points

Peak or regime-shift months that anchor the narrative across the charts.

MonthEventRate
1. Monthly turnover overview

A single dashboard view of the five requested metrics, keeping the full decade visible before drilling into specific narratives.

Chart nameMulti-line overview of monthly workforce rates
GroupG1
Commonality score9/10
Why this chart fitsFive time series share the same unit, so a synchronized line view makes cross-metric turning points easy to compare.
Required columnsdate, hires_rate, job_openings_rate, layoffs_discharges_rate, quits_rate, total_separations_rate
Optional columnsNone
Suggested mappingsx = date, y = rate, color = metric
One-sentence insightThe decade is defined by a brief 2020 separation shock and a later 2021-2022 openings-and-quits surge that fades by the end of the period.
2. The Great Resignation in context

Quits and job openings move together, showing how voluntary exits accelerated as labor demand tightened and then normalized.

Chart nameQuits rate vs. job openings rate
GroupG1
Commonality score8/10
Why this chart fitsA focused two-line comparison isolates the labor-demand backdrop behind the Great Resignation without the noise of the other series.
Required columnsdate, quits_rate, job_openings_rate
Optional columnsBaseline or phase markers for annotation
Suggested mappingsx = date, y = rate, color = metric
One-sentence insightQuits rose above the pre-2020 norm as openings reached record highs, then both cooled toward more typical rates.
3. Hiring balance: hires minus separations

A gap view compresses the hires-vs.-separations story into one readable signal, separating expansion months from contraction months.

Chart nameArea chart of hires minus separations
GroupG2
Commonality score6/10
Why this chart fitsThe positive/negative filled area makes it obvious when hiring outpaced exits and when the balance flipped the other way.
Required columnsdate, hires_rate, total_separations_rate
Optional columnsDerived gap_hires_minus_sep
Suggested mappingsx = date, y = hires_rate - total_separations_rate, color = sign of gap
One-sentence insightMost months stayed on the expansion side, with the negative area concentrated in the early-pandemic shock and a few near-balance months later on.
4. Voluntary quits vs. involuntary layoffs

Stacked composition highlights how the makeup of separations changed from a layoff-led shock in 2020 to quit-led churn in 2021-2022.

Chart nameStacked area of separation components
GroupG2
Commonality score6/10
Why this chart fitsComposition matters here, and a stacked area preserves the total separation level while revealing which component is driving it.
Required columnsdate, quits_rate, layoffs_discharges_rate, total_separations_rate
Optional columnsDerived other separations residual
Suggested mappingsx = date, y = component rate, color = separation type
One-sentence insightLayoffs dominate only during the pandemic shock, whereas quits are the persistent driver of separations during the Great Resignation phase.
5. Quits-rate phase shifts

A waterfall turns the decade into interpretable regime changes, showing how far average quits moved between each phase.

Chart nameWaterfall of average quits rate by phase
GroupG2
Commonality score5/10
Why this chart fitsThe story is about stepwise regime changes, and waterfall bars make those relative increases and decreases explicit.
Required columnsdate, quits_rate
Optional columnsCustom phase windows: 2016-2019, 2020, 2021-2022, 2023, 2024-2025
Suggested mappingsx = phase, y = average quits rate change, color = increase/decrease/total
One-sentence insightAverage quits barely dipped in 2020, surged in 2021-2022, and then stepped down in two cooling phases rather than collapsing all at once.
6. Quits-rate calendar heatmap

A year-by-month matrix surfaces the persistence of elevated quits across 2021 and 2022 better than another line chart would.

Chart nameCalendar heatmap of monthly quits rate
GroupG3
Commonality score4/10
Why this chart fitsA calendar-style matrix reveals seasonal persistence and hot streaks, adding a deeper layer beyond simple trend direction.
Required columnsdate, quits_rate
Optional columnsDerived year and month fields
Suggested mappingsx = month, y = year, color = quits_rate
One-sentence insightThe hottest cells cluster across 2021-2022, showing the Great Resignation as a sustained period rather than a one-month spike.