Job separations: Private: Education and health services (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 education and health services sector were 813 thousand in August 2026, compared to 789 in July.
Sample. In this monthly time series, there are 309 data points in total. The time range covered by the series stretches from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: job separations in the education and health services sector had a mean value of 588 thousand; they peaked at 2,054 in March 2020; they reached their minimum of 408 in May 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 759.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 789.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 813.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Education and health services |
| 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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