Job openings: Government (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 government sector were 731 thousand in August 2026, compared to 773 in July.
Sample. There are 309 data points overall in the monthly series presented in the chart above. The time range covered by the series stretches from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics we computed on the full sample: job openings in the government sector hit a trough of 274 thousand in May 2009; they reached their highest level of 1,225 in July 2022; they had a mean value of 561.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 762.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 773.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 731.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Government |
| 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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