Job openings: Government (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 government sector were 731 thousand in August 2026, compared to 773 in the previous month.
Sample. In this monthly time series, there are 309 records overall. The span of time covered by the series goes from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: job openings in the government sector reached their highest level of 1,225 thousand in July 2022; they hit a minimum of 274 in May 2009; they averaged 561.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 762.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 773.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 731.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Government |
| 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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