Job separations: Private: Manufacturing: Nondurable 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 nondurable goods sector were 149 thousand in August 2026, compared to 124 in the previous month.
Sample. In this monthly time series, there are 309 data points. The series covers the time period going from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: job separations in the nondurable goods sector reached their lowest level of 81 thousand in October 2013; they peaked at 361 in March 2020; they averaged 148.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 125.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 124.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 149.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Manufacturing: Nondurable 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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