Job openings: Private: Trade, transportation, and utilities (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 trade, transportation, and utilities sector were 1,287 thousand in August 2026, compared to 1,244 in July.
Sample. There are 309 observations in the monthly series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the period extending from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: job openings in the trade, transportation, and utilities sector averaged 951 thousand; they hit a peak of 2,300 in March 2022; they reached their minimum of 301 in July 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,286.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1,244.00 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1,287.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Trade, transportation, and utilities |
| 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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