Job separations: Private: Professional and business 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 professional and business services sector stood at 917 thousand in August 2026, compared to 908 in the previous month.
Sample. The monthly time series displayed in the graph has 309 records in total. The time span covered by the series stretches from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: job separations in the professional and business services sector hit a minimum of 682 thousand in October 2009; they reached their maximum of 1,939 in March 2020; they were equal on average to 974.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,021.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 908.000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 917.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Professional and business 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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