Job openings: Government: State and local: Education (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, job openings in the state and local education sector were 228 thousand in August 2026, versus 239 in July.
Sample. There are 309 data points in the monthly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time range extending from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: job openings in the state and local education sector had a mean value of 169 thousand; they reached their highest level of 490 in July 2022; they reached a minimum of 59 in July 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 267.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 239.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 228.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Government: State and local: Education |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| 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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