Job openings: Private: Manufacturing (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 manufacturing sector stood at 522 thousand in August 2026, compared to 576 in July.
Sample. There are 309 observations in the monthly series shown in the figure above. The time period covered by the series extends from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: job openings in the manufacturing sector reached a trough of 88 thousand in April 2009; they reached a maximum of 1,025 in April 2022; they had a mean value of 369.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 501.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 576.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 522.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Manufacturing |
| 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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