Hires: Government (thousand; seasonally adjusted) - United States - BLS - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: US JOLTS survey (BLS)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, hires in the government sector stood at 346 thousand in August 2026, compared to 299 in the previous month.
Sample. The monthly time series shown in the graph has 309 data points overall. The series covers the time period extending from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: hires in the government sector hit a trough of 224 thousand in April 2020; they reached their maximum of 735 in May 2010; they averaged 335.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 316.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 299.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 346.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Hires: Government |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | Yes |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Thousand |
| Source | Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) |
| Source type | National statistical agency |
| Data licence | Public Domain Data |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | SM1 |
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