Job separations: Government: State and local: Excluding education (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 state and local sector (excluding education) were 149 thousand in August 2026, compared to 154 in July 2026.
Sample. There are 309 observations in the monthly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the span of time going from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some statistics we computed on the entire sample: job separations in the state and local sector (excluding education) had a mean value of 143 thousand; they hit a minimum of 104 in June 2013; they peaked at 240 in April 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 151.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 154.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 149.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Government: State and local: Excluding education |
| 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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