Job separations: Private: Manufacturing: Nondurable goods (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 nondurable goods sector stood at 149 thousand in August 2026, versus 124 in the previous month.
Sample. There are 309 observations in the monthly time series displayed in the graph above. The time span covered by the series extends from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: job separations in the nondurable goods sector attained a maximum of 361 thousand in March 2020; they recorded a minimum of 81 in October 2013; they had a mean of 148.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 125.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 124.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 149.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Manufacturing: Nondurable goods |
| 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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