Hires: Private: Leisure and hospitality: Accommodation and food 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 accommodation and food services sector were 750 thousand in August 2026, compared to 767 in July.
Sample. There are 309 observations in the monthly time series displayed in the graph above. The time range covered by the series goes from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: hires in the accommodation and food services sector achieved a maximum of 1,822 thousand in June 2020; they hit a minimum of 392 in April 2020; they averaged 779.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 722.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 767.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 750.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Hires: Private: Leisure and hospitality: Accommodation and food 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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