Job openings: Private: Leisure and hospitality: Accommodation and food services (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 accommodation and food services sector were 713 thousand in August 2026, versus 653 in the previous month.
Sample. This monthly time series has 309 observations overall. The time range covered by the series stretches from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: job openings in the accommodation and food services sector averaged 632 thousand; they recorded a minimum of 173 in August 2009; they reached their maximum of 1,562 in July 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 691.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 653.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 713.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Leisure and hospitality: Accommodation and food services |
| 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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