Hires: Private: Professional and business 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 professional and business services sector stood at 935 thousand in August 2026, compared to 899 in July.
Sample. In this monthly time series, there are 309 observations in total. The series covers the time period going from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some statistics we computed on the whole sample: hires in the professional and business services sector had a mean of 992 thousand; they attained a maximum of 1,417 in November 2021; they reached a minimum of 611 in June 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,088.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 899.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 935.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Hires: Private: Professional and business 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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