Hires: Private: Wholesale 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 wholesale trade sector were 171 thousand in August 2026, compared to 159 in July 2026.
Sample. There are 309 observations in the monthly series shown in the graph above. The time period covered by the series extends from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: hires in the wholesale trade sector averaged 147 thousand; they peaked at 219 in May 2020; they reached a minimum of 96 in January 2010.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 154.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 159.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 171.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Hires: Private: Wholesale 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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