Job separations: Private: Professional and business 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 professional and business services sector were 917 thousand in August 2026, compared to 908 in the previous month.
Sample. There are 309 records overall in the monthly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the period stretching from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: job separations in the professional and business services sector had a mean value of 974 thousand; they reached a trough of 682 in October 2009; they reached a maximum of 1,939 in March 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,021.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 908.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 917.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Professional and business 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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