Job openings: Private: Education and health services: Health care and social assistance (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 health care and social assistance sector stood at 1,359 thousand in August 2026, compared to 1,474 in July 2026.
Sample. There are 309 observations in the monthly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time span going from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at some statistics we computed on the entire sample: job openings in the health care and social assistance sector peaked at 2,106 thousand in March 2022; they hit a trough of 408 in June 2010; they had a mean of 947.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,384.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1,474.00 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1,359.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Education and health services: Health care and social assistance |
| 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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