Job openings: Private: Retail trade (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 retail trade sector were 761 thousand in August 2026, compared to 707 in July 2026.
Sample. There are 309 observations overall in the monthly series shown in the chart above. The time range covered by the series goes from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics computed on the full sample: job openings in the retail trade sector recorded a minimum of 196 thousand in July 2009; they recorded a maximum of 1,467 in March 2022; they had an average value of 571.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 728.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 707.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 761.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Retail trade |
| 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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