Indiana Posts Second-Highest Workforce Quit Rate in the Country

Indiana ranked second in the nation for job resignations during September through December 2025, averaging 91,500 quits per month at a 2.8% resignation rate, trailing only Alaska. The BLS State JOLTS release for December 2025 confirmed Indiana posted the largest single-month increase in quits of any state, up 20,000 month-over-month, and the largest increase in total separations, up 24,000.

When quits and involuntary separations accelerate together, you're looking at structural dislocation, not a confident workforce upgrading jobs uniformly. Indiana's concentration in RV, auto supply, and durable goods manufacturing makes those sectors the highest-risk. For reference: Georgia fell 30,000 quits and Tennessee fell 27,000 in the same month. SK Hynix's CHIPS Act-backed chip packaging facility in West Lafayette, targeting more than 1,000 high-wage jobs by second-half 2028, is entering this labor market at a 1.0 worker-per-opening ratio. At even conservative replacement cost estimates, monthly churn at this scale is a recurring P&L hit. Quantify it for your own facility. Your retention program is a direct operational cost center, and the window to act before that competition arrives is closing.