Job separations: Government: Federal (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 separations in the federal sector were 32 thousand in August 2026, unchanged with respect to the previous month.
Sample. There are 309 observations in the monthly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time range going from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: job separations in the federal sector recorded a bottom of 17 thousand in February 2009; they recorded a maximum of 278 in June 2010; they had a mean of 40.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 30.0000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 32.0000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 32.0000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Government: Federal |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| 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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