Hires: 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, hires in the trade, transportation, and utilities sector stood at 1,085 thousand in August 2026, compared to 1,096 in July.
Sample. In the monthly series presented in the figure, there are 309 records. The series covers the time span extending from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: hires in the trade, transportation, and utilities sector averaged 1,072 thousand; they reached a minimum of 727 in October 2009; they hit a peak of 1,564 in May 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,109.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1,096.00 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1,085.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Hires: 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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