Hires: Private: Trade, transportation, and utilities (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 trade, transportation, and utilities sector stood at 1,085 thousand in August 2026, compared to 1,096 in the previous month.
Sample. There are 309 records overall in the monthly time series shown in the plot above. The time range covered by the series extends from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics we computed on the entire sample: hires in the trade, transportation, and utilities sector averaged 1,072 thousand; they hit a trough of 727 in October 2009; they hit a peak of 1,564 in May 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,109.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1,096.00 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1,085.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Hires: Private: Trade, transportation, and utilities |
| 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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