Job separations: Private: Manufacturing (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 manufacturing sector were 311 thousand in August 2026, versus 284 in July 2026.
Sample. This monthly series has 309 observations in total. The time range covered by the series extends from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: job separations in the manufacturing sector reached their maximum of 879 thousand in March 2020; they reached their minimum of 208 in October 2013; they averaged 350.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 308.000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 284.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 311.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Manufacturing |
| 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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