Hires: 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, hires in the professional and business services sector were 935 thousand in August 2026, versus 899 in the previous month.
Sample. There are 309 observations in the monthly series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time range extending from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: hires in the professional and business services sector registered a minimum of 611 thousand in June 2009; they hit a peak of 1,417 in November 2021; they had an average value of 992.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,088.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 899.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 935.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Hires: 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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