Job separations: Total private (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, total private job separations stood at 4,761 thousand in August 2026, versus 4,785 in July 2026.
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. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: total private job separations recorded a bottom of 3,612 thousand in May 2010; they hit a maximum of 15,747 in March 2020; they were equal on average to 4,773.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 5,002.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 4,785.00 |
| 2026-08-31 | 4,761.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Total private |
| 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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