Job openings: Private: Education and health services (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 education and health services sector were 1,484 thousand in August 2026, compared to 1,585 in July 2026.
Sample. There are 309 records in the monthly series shown in the graph above. The time range covered by the series stretches from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics computed on the entire sample: job openings in the education and health services sector averaged 1,042 thousand; they achieved a maximum of 2,282 in July 2022; they registered a minimum of 461 in June 2010.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,501.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1,585.00 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1,484.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Education and health services |
| 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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