Job separations: Government (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 government sector were 309 thousand in August 2026, versus 343 in July.
Sample. There are 309 records overall in the monthly time series displayed in the chart above. The time span covered by the series is from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: job separations in the government sector reached their lowest level of 260 thousand in October 2011; they reached their highest level of 552 in June 2010; they had an average value of 327.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 336.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 343.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 309.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Government |
| 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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