Job openings: Private: Professional and business 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 professional and business services sector stood at 1,186 thousand in August 2026, compared to 1,305 in July.
Sample. There are 309 data points overall in the monthly series shown in the chart above. The time span covered by the series goes from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: job openings in the professional and business services sector hit a maximum of 2,464 thousand in March 2022; they reached a minimum of 390 in March 2010; they had an average value of 1,017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,203.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1,305.00 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1,186.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Professional and business 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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