Job separations: Private: Construction (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 construction sector were 272 thousand in August 2026, compared to 315 in July 2026.
Sample. There are 309 data points in the monthly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the span of time going from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: job separations in the construction sector peaked at 821 thousand in April 2020; they recorded a bottom of 245 in March 2014; they were equal on average to 376.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 327.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 315.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 272.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Construction |
| 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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