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Current Employment Statistics (CES7072000001) · Accommodation and food services, seasonally adjusted

How many jobs are there in accommodation and food services?

The number of jobs in accommodation and food services was 14,310 thousand in the month ended , up 0.7% from a year earlier (preliminary).

Jobs in accommodation and food services, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, each month

January 1990 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as published

Jobs in accommodation and food services, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, each month (January 1990 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Jobs in accommodation and food services, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, each month (September 2016 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Jobs in accommodation and food services, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, each month (September 2024 to September 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

Jobs in accommodation and food services, in thousands, change from a year earlier, each month (ours)

January 1990 to September 2026Ours, from the published values

Jobs in accommodation and food services, in thousands, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (January 1990 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Jobs in accommodation and food services, in thousands, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (September 2016 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Jobs in accommodation and food services, in thousands, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (September 2024 to September 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

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The newest month beside the one before it and the nearest ones a year, five and ten years earlier. The last ten years are in the table under "The numbers behind the chart".

MeasureLatestThe month beforeA year earlierFive years earlierTen years earlier
Month
Jobs in accommodation and food services, in thousands14,310 thousand14,302 thousand14,205 thousand12,648 thousand13,518 thousand
Change over a year+0.7%+0.9%+0.3%+11.4%+3.3%

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Observed .

Right now

The number of jobs in accommodation and food services was 14,310 thousand in September 2026, the highest since May 2026.

Over a year it is up 0.7% (ours). The source marks this value preliminary.

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ChangeOurs

PeriodThenChange
One month14,302 thousand in +0.1%
Three months14,294 thousand in +0.1%
Twelve months14,205 thousand in +0.7%
Five years12,648 thousand in +13.1%
Ten years13,518 thousand in +5.9%

In historyOurs

The number of jobs in accommodation and food services of 14,310 thousand in was higher than in 436 of the 440 other months since , the same in 0 and lower in 4.

Highest since : 14,393 thousand in . Lowest since : 7,516 thousand in .

AverageOurs

Average since : 11,264.4 thousand (ours, a plain mean of the 441 months).

ComparedOurs

Over a year the number of jobs in accommodation and food services is up 0.7%, which ranks 7 of the 35 rows of the table, where 1 is the largest change.

The table sets the number of jobs in accommodation and food services beside the industries on the jobs by industry page, by the change over a year in each one's newest month.

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Inside itOurs

Of the 2 industries inside accommodation and food services that BLS reports, the change over a year was largest for food services and drinking places, up 0.9%, and smallest for accommodation, down 0.3% (ours).

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Openings and turnoverJob Openings and Labor Turnover Survey

In August 2026 the survey counted, for accommodation and food services, 713 thousand job openings, 750 thousand hires, 507 thousand quits and 174 thousand layoffs and discharges.

Over a year the counts are job openings down 24.3%, hires down 3.7%, quits down 8.8% and layoffs and discharges down 7.4% (ours).

Job openings, hires, quits and layoffs in accommodation and food services

August 2016 to August 2026Seasonally adjusted, as publishedNo picture is made of these rows; their numbers are in the table

Job openings, hires, quits and layoffs in accommodation and food services, one row for each measure
  • Job openings713270 to 1,562
  • Hires750392 to 1,822
  • Quits507295 to 842
  • Layoffs and discharges17487 to 4,543

Each row is one measure of the second survey for accommodation and food services, in thousands over the last ten years, one month to a point, on one scale, with its newest value and its range printed beside it. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.

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Understanding the number of jobs in accommodation and food services

Where it stands today

The number of jobs in accommodation and food services was 14,310 thousand in September 2026.

What does the number of jobs in accommodation and food services measure?

Accommodation and food services covers hotels, motels and other places to stay, and the restaurants, caterers, bars and other places that prepare food and drink to be eaten away from home.

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) counts these jobs each month in a survey of employers, the Current Employment Statistics, and publishes them in the Employment Situation report at the start of the next month. The count is all employees on payrolls, in thousands, seasonally adjusted.

What 500metrics adds: the change over one month, three months, a year and five years, the highest and lowest value since the series begins, how the change over a year ranks among the lines of the jobs by industry page, the industries inside it with their own change over a year. For this industry it also shows the job openings, hires, quits and layoffs from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), a second BLS survey, beside the count of jobs.

The numbers behind the chart

What was the number of jobs in accommodation and food services in each month?The last ten years, 120 months, newest first; the chart and the file have every month since Jan 1990
Jobs in accommodation and food services, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, by month, newest first (Thousands of jobs; the change ours)
MonthValueChange over a year
14,310 thousand+0.7%
14,302 thousand+0.9%
14,262 thousand+0.8%
14,294 thousand+1.0%
14,323 thousand+1.2%
14,284 thousand+0.8%
14,292 thousand+1.0%
14,250 thousand+0.8%
14,297 thousand+0.8%
14,282 thousand+0.5%
14,272 thousand+0.7%
14,251 thousand+0.6%
14,205 thousand+0.3%
14,168 thousand+0.4%
14,152 thousand+0.2%
14,147 thousand+0.1%
14,158 thousand+0.3%
14,168 thousand+0.1%
14,153 thousand−0.1%
14,136 thousand−0.1%
14,180 thousand+0.4%
14,210 thousand+0.5%
14,176 thousand+0.3%
14,168 thousand+0.2%
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MonthValueChange over a year
14,157 thousand+0.2%
14,115 thousand−0.1%
14,127 thousand+0.2%
14,126 thousand+0.4%
14,120 thousand+0.6%
14,156 thousand+1.2%
14,174 thousand+1.3%
14,155 thousand+1.2%
14,127 thousand+1.4%
14,135 thousand+2.3%
14,140 thousand+2.4%
14,133 thousand+2.7%
14,133 thousand+3.2%
14,124 thousand+3.5%
14,097 thousand+3.6%
14,077 thousand+4.3%
14,030 thousand+4.6%
13,993 thousand+4.9%
13,992 thousand+5.4%
13,981 thousand+5.7%
13,929 thousand+6.1%
13,823 thousand+6.0%
13,805 thousand+7.0%
13,763 thousand+7.4%
13,693 thousand+8.3%
13,653 thousand+8.7%
13,604 thousand+9.0%
13,497 thousand+11.2%
13,407 thousand+12.9%
13,339 thousand+14.2%
13,275 thousand+15.6%
13,232 thousand+16.4%
13,128 thousand+18.7%
13,046 thousand+18.0%
12,904 thousand+12.5%
12,813 thousand+10.9%
12,648 thousand+11.4%
12,564 thousand+14.0%
12,485 thousand+14.7%
12,136 thousand+17.2%
11,877 thousand+35.6%
11,683 thousand+55.4%
11,486 thousand−16.4%
11,370 thousand−21.0%
11,062 thousand−22.8%
11,060 thousand−22.9%
11,473 thousand−19.8%
11,555 thousand−19.1%
11,358 thousand−20.1%
11,022 thousand−22.1%
10,887 thousand−22.7%
10,358 thousand−26.4%
8,758 thousand−37.8%
7,516 thousand−46.7%
13,741 thousand−2.4%
14,393 thousand+2.3%
14,330 thousand+1.9%
14,336 thousand+2.3%
14,302 thousand+2.4%
14,275 thousand+2.4%
14,221 thousand+2.0%
14,156 thousand+1.5%
14,083 thousand+1.1%
14,071 thousand+1.1%
14,072 thousand+1.3%
14,098 thousand+1.7%
14,074 thousand+1.5%
14,074 thousand+1.5%
14,068 thousand+1.6%
14,018 thousand+1.4%
13,968 thousand+1.2%
13,947 thousand+1.2%
13,937 thousand+1.1%
13,942 thousand+1.1%
13,936 thousand+1.2%
13,917 thousand+1.3%
13,887 thousand+1.3%
13,868 thousand+1.3%
13,868 thousand+1.6%
13,867 thousand+1.8%
13,845 thousand+1.9%
13,830 thousand+2.0%
13,808 thousand+2.0%
13,776 thousand+2.0%
13,790 thousand+2.0%
13,784 thousand+2.5%
13,768 thousand+2.7%
13,732 thousand+2.6%
13,713 thousand+2.7%
13,691 thousand+2.7%
13,654 thousand+2.6%
13,622 thousand+2.5%
13,586 thousand+2.4%
13,560 thousand+2.6%
13,533 thousand+2.7%
13,508 thousand+2.9%
How does it compare with the industries on the jobs by industry page?Ranked by the change over a year
Jobs in accommodation and food services, in thousands beside the industries on the jobs by industry page, newest month of each, by the change over a year (ours); equal changes share a rank
SeriesMonthValueChange over a yearRank
Health care and social assistance23,959 thousand+2.2%1
Private education and health28,005 thousand+1.9%2
Utilities612 thousand+1.7%3
Construction8,364 thousand+1.3%4
Durable goods7,898 thousand+1.1%5
Professional, scientific, technical10,844 thousand+0.8%6
Accommodation and food services14,310 thousand+0.7%7
Goods-producing21,623 thousand+0.7%7
Other services6,039 thousand+0.6%9
Professional and business services22,482 thousand+0.6%9
Administrative, support, waste9,019 thousand+0.5%11
Private service-providing114,094 thousand+0.5%11
Total private135,717 thousand+0.5%11
Leisure and hospitality16,969 thousand+0.4%14
Wholesale trade6,078 thousand+0.4%14
Local government15,173 thousand+0.3%16
Manufacturing12,652 thousand+0.3%16
Mining and logging607 thousand+0.3%16
Service-providing137,421 thousand+0.3%16
Total nonfarm159,044 thousand+0.3%16
Retail trade15,480 thousand+0.2%21
Trade, transportation, utilities28,778 thousand+0.2%21
Mining, oil and gas extraction567 thousand+0.1%23
Private education4,046 thousand−0.1%24
Transportation and warehousing6,609 thousand−0.1%24
Management of companies2,620 thousand−0.3%26
State government5,472 thousand−0.5%27
Real estate, rental, leasing2,438 thousand−0.6%28
Government23,327 thousand−0.9%29
Nondurable goods4,754 thousand−0.9%29
Financial activities9,082 thousand−1.2%31
Finance and insurance6,645 thousand−1.4%32
Arts, entertainment, recreation2,659 thousand−1.6%33
Information2,739 thousand−4.2%34
Federal government2,682 thousand−8.0%35

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Which industries are inside accommodation and food services?Newest month of each industry
The industries inside accommodation and food services, newest month of each: the count in thousands, its share of the page's industry and the change over a year (both ours); equal changes share a rank
IndustryMonthCountShareChange over a yearRank
Accommodation1,917 thousand13.4%−0.3%2
Food services and drinking places12,393 thousand86.6%+0.9%1

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How many job openings, hires, quits and layoffs were there in accommodation and food services?Newest month of each measure
Job openings, hires, quits and layoffs in accommodation and food services, newest month of each measure, seasonally adjusted (Thousands (job openings at the end of the month; hires, quits and layoffs during it); rates in percent; the change over a year ours)
MeasureMonthCountRateChange over a yearWhere the count stands
Job openings713 thousand4.7%−24.3%the highest since May 2026
Hires750 thousand5.2%−3.7%the lowest since June 2026
Quits507 thousand3.5%−8.8%the lowest since October 2025
Layoffs and discharges174 thousand1.2%−7.4%the lowest since June 2026

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What do these figures leave out, and how are they cited?Limits, dates and how to cite

What this number cannot tell you

  • BLS counts jobs, not people: a person with two jobs on two payrolls is counted twice. Farm jobs, the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers and members of the military are not counted.
  • The count comes from a survey of employers, so each month's value carries sampling error. BLS revises each month twice in the two months after it is first published, and each February it benchmarks the series to a full count of jobs from unemployment insurance tax records and revises earlier values, so past values on this page can change.
  • BLS publishes this series from 1990.
  • The job openings, hires, quits and layoffs come from JOLTS, a separate survey of employers that BLS holds from December 2000 and publishes about a month after the payroll counts, so its newest month can be an earlier month than the count of jobs.
  • The count is shown in whole thousands, but BLS publishes this series to one decimal, so the changes, the ranks and the highest and lowest values, which are ours and worked out from the values as BLS publishes them, can differ in their last place from those worked out from the values as shown.
  • The changes, the ranks and the highest and lowest values are ours, worked out from the values BLS publishes; a change is in percent.

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How to cite this

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, Accommodation and food services, seasonally adjusted, through September 2026, with U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, through August 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "How many jobs are there in accommodation and food services?", https://500metrics.com/jobs-by-industry/accommodation-food-services.

Can the data be downloaded?jobs-by-industry-accommodation-food-services.csv

Download the full history as CSV: 441 rows, to , 8,775 bytes.

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Recession dates from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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