Job separations: Private: Trade, transportation, and utilities (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 trade, transportation, and utilities sector stood at 1,102 thousand in August 2026, compared to 1,103 in July 2026.
Sample. This monthly time series has 309 data points in total. The series covers the time span extending from December 2000 to August 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: job separations in the trade, transportation, and utilities sector averaged 1,063 thousand; they reached their minimum of 731 in January 2010; they recorded their highest level of 2,768 in March 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Thousand |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,106.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1,103.00 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1,102.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Job separations: Private: Trade, transportation, and utilities |
| 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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