Hires: 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, hires in the retail trade sector were 667 thousand in August 2026, compared to 663 in July.
Sample. There are 309 observations overall in the monthly series displayed in the plot above. The time span covered by the series is from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we computed on the whole sample: hires in the retail trade sector were equal on average to 717 thousand; they hit a minimum of 503 in October 2009; they reached their highest level of 1,003 in May 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 646.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 663.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 667.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Hires: 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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