Job openings: Private: Manufacturing: Durable goods (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 durable goods sector were 380 thousand in August 2026, compared to 423 in July.
Sample. There are 309 data points in the monthly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the period going from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: job openings in the durable goods sector averaged 228 thousand; they reached their minimum of 42 in July 2009; they hit a peak of 657 in April 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 353.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 423.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 380.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Manufacturing: Durable goods |
| 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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