Hires: 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 hires stood at 4,846 thousand in August 2026, compared to 4,847 in July.
Sample. There are 309 records in the monthly series presented in the figure above. The time range covered by the series is from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: total private hires had an average value of 4,855 thousand; they reached their maximum of 7,875 in May 2020; they reached their minimum of 3,375 in June 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 5,016.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 4,847.00 |
| 2026-08-31 | 4,846.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Hires: 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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