Job separations: Private: Trade, transportation, and utilities (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 trade, transportation, and utilities sector were 1,102 thousand in August 2026, versus 1,103 in July.
Sample. There are 309 observations in the monthly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the period extending from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: job separations in the trade, transportation, and utilities sector reached a trough of 731 thousand in January 2010; they hit a maximum of 2,768 in March 2020; they had an average value of 1,063.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,106.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1,103.00 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1,102.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Trade, transportation, and utilities |
| 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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