Job openings: Private: Wholesale trade (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 wholesale trade sector were 188 thousand in August 2026, compared to 224 in the previous month.
Sample. There are 309 records overall in the monthly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the span of time going from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: job openings in the wholesale trade sector had an average value of 165 thousand; they recorded a minimum of 58 in April 2009; they reached a maximum of 376 in May 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 174.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 224.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 188.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job openings: Private: Wholesale trade |
| 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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