Job separations: Government: Federal (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 separations in the federal sector stood at 32 thousand in August 2026, unchanged with respect to July.
Sample. There are 309 observations overall in the monthly series displayed in the figure above. The time range covered by the series goes from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: job separations in the federal sector hit a peak of 278 thousand in June 2010; they hit a minimum of 17 in February 2009; they were equal on average to 40.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 30.0000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 32.0000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 32.0000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Government: Federal |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| 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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