Job separations: Private: Manufacturing: Durable goods (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 durable goods sector were 162 thousand in August 2026, compared to 161 in the previous month.
Sample. In the monthly time series shown in the graph, there are 309 data points. The time span covered by the series goes from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: job separations in the durable goods sector attained a maximum of 526 thousand in April 2020; they reached their minimum of 122 in April 2011; they had a mean of 203.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 184.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 161.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 162.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Manufacturing: Durable goods |
| 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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