Job separations: Private: Retail trade (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 retail trade sector were 678 thousand in August 2026, versus 662 in July 2026.
Sample. There are 309 records overall in the monthly time series shown in the figure above. The time period covered by the series goes from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: job separations in the retail trade sector reached their minimum of 495 thousand in September 2025; they recorded a maximum of 1,844 in March 2020; they had a mean value of 716.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 666.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 662.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 678.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Retail trade |
| 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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