Job openings: Private: Construction (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 construction sector were 251 thousand in August 2026, versus 299 in July.
Sample. The monthly time series displayed in the figure has a total of 309 observations. The time period covered by the series stretches from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics calculated on the full sample: job openings in the construction sector hit a minimum of 24 thousand in April 2009; they reached their maximum of 457 in March 2022; they had a mean of 194.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 298.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 299.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 251.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Construction |
| 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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