Job openings: Private: Leisure and hospitality: Accommodation and food 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 accommodation and food services sector were 713 thousand in August 2026, compared to 653 in July.
Sample. In the monthly time series shown in the graph, there are a total of 309 observations. The time period covered by the series is from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: job openings in the accommodation and food services sector reached their highest level of 1,562 thousand in July 2021; they hit a trough of 173 in August 2009; they had a mean value of 632.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 691.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 653.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 713.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Leisure and hospitality: Accommodation and food 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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