Hires: Private: Construction (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 construction sector were 308 thousand in August 2026, compared to 358 in July 2026.
Sample. There are 309 records in the monthly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time range going from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics calculated on the whole sample: hires in the construction sector hit a peak of 754 thousand in May 2020; they hit a trough of 243 in April 2020; they had a mean of 382.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 319.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 358.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 308.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Hires: Private: Construction |
| 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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