Job separations: Private: Education and health services (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 education and health services sector were 813 thousand in August 2026, compared to 789 in the previous month.
Sample. In this monthly series, there are 309 observations. The series covers the time period extending from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: job separations in the education and health services sector averaged 588 thousand; they achieved a maximum of 2,054 in March 2020; they reached their lowest level of 408 in May 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 759.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 789.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 813.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Education and health services |
| 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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