Job openings: Government: State and local: Education (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, job openings in the state and local education sector were 228 thousand in August 2026, compared to 239 in the previous month.
Sample. In the monthly series plotted above, there are 309 data points overall. The series covers the time span going from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: job openings in the state and local education sector reached their minimum of 59 thousand in July 2009; they hit a maximum of 490 in July 2022; they had an average value of 169.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 267.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 239.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 228.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Government: State and local: Education |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| 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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