Job separations: Private: Education and health services: Health care and social assistance (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 health care and social assistance sector were 707 thousand in August 2026, versus 696 in the previous month.
Sample. There are 309 records overall in the monthly series shown in the plot above. The period covered by the series stretches from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some statistics we calculated on the full sample: job separations in the health care and social assistance sector registered a minimum of 337 thousand in May 2009; they attained a maximum of 1,687 in March 2020; they averaged 508.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 674.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 696.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 707.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Education and health services: Health care and social assistance |
| 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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