Job openings: Private: Wholesale 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 wholesale trade sector were 188 thousand in August 2026, versus 224 in the previous month.
Sample. In this monthly time series, there are a total of 309 records. The time period covered by the series stretches from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: job openings in the wholesale trade sector averaged 165 thousand; they hit a minimum of 58 in April 2009; they reached their maximum of 376 in May 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 174.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 224.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 188.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Wholesale 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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