Hires: Private: Retail trade (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 retail trade sector were 667 thousand in August 2026, versus 663 in the previous month.
Sample. This monthly time series has a total of 309 observations. The time span covered by the series stretches from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: hires in the retail trade sector had a mean of 717 thousand; they reached their lowest level of 503 in October 2009; they reached their maximum of 1,003 in May 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 646.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 663.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 667.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Hires: Private: Retail trade |
| 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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