Job separations: Private: Construction (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 construction sector were 272 thousand in August 2026, compared to 315 in July 2026.
Sample. There are 309 observations in the monthly series presented in the graph above. The period covered by the series goes from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics calculated on the full sample: job separations in the construction sector hit a minimum of 245 thousand in March 2014; they achieved a maximum of 821 in April 2020; they had an average value of 376.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 327.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 315.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 272.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Construction |
| 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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