Hires: Private: Education and health services (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 education and health services sector were 810 thousand in August 2026, compared to 790 in the previous month.
Sample. In this monthly time series, there are 309 data points in total. The series covers the time span extending from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: hires in the education and health services sector hit a maximum of 1,145 thousand in May 2020; they hit a trough of 440 in June 2004; they were equal on average to 628.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 802.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 790.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 810.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Hires: Private: Education and health services |
| 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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