Job openings: Private: Professional and business 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 professional and business services sector were 1,186 thousand in August 2026, compared to 1,305 in the previous month.
Sample. There are 309 data points overall in the monthly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the period stretching from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: job openings in the professional and business services sector had an average value of 1,017 thousand; they hit a maximum of 2,464 in March 2022; they reached their minimum of 390 in March 2010.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,203.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1,305.00 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1,186.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Professional and business 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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