Job openings: Private: Construction (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 construction sector stood at 251 thousand in August 2026, versus 299 in the previous month.
Sample. There are 309 records in the monthly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the span of time extending from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: job openings in the construction sector averaged 194 thousand; they hit a peak of 457 in March 2022; they hit a trough of 24 in April 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 298.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 299.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 251.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Construction |
| 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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