Current Employment Statistics (CES0800000001) · Private service-providing, seasonally adjusted
How many jobs are there in private service-providing industries?
The number of jobs in private service-providing industries was 114,094 thousand in the month ended , up 0.5% from a year earlier (preliminary).
Jobs in private service-providing industries, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, each month
Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to .
Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .
Jobs in private service-providing industries, in thousands, change from a year earlier, each month (ours)
Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to .
Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .
Each point is one month of the series as the source publishes it, or a change worked out from those values (ours). The US recessions are shaded. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.
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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".
| Measure | Latest | The month before | A year earlier | Five years earlier | Ten years earlier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | |||||
| Jobs in private service-providing industries, in thousands | 114,094 thousand | 114,066 thousand | 113,533 thousand | 105,226 thousand | 102,914 thousand |
| Change over a year | +0.5% | +0.5% | +0.6% | +5.3% | +2.3% |
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Observed .
Right now
The number of jobs in private service-providing industries was 114,094 thousand in September 2026, the highest since our record begins in January 1939.
Over a year it is up 0.5% (ours). The source marks this value preliminary.
ChangeOurs
| Period | Then | Change |
|---|---|---|
| One month | 114,066 thousand in | 0.0% |
| Three months | 114,018 thousand in | +0.1% |
| Twelve months | 113,533 thousand in | +0.5% |
| Five years | 105,226 thousand in | +8.4% |
| Ten years | 102,914 thousand in | +10.9% |
In historyOurs
The number of jobs in private service-providing industries of 114,094 thousand in was higher than in 1,052 of the 1,052 other months since , the same in 0 and lower in 0.
Highest since : 114,094 thousand in . Lowest since : 14,837 thousand in .
AverageOurs
Average since : 58,005.3 thousand (ours, a plain mean of the 1,053 months).
ComparedOurs
Over a year the number of jobs in private service-providing industries is up 0.5%, which ranks 11 of the 35 rows of the table, where 1 is the largest change.
The table sets the number of jobs in private service-providing industries beside the industries on the jobs by industry page, by the change over a year in each one's newest month.
Understanding the number of jobs in private service-providing industries
Where it stands today
The number of jobs in private service-providing industries was 114,094 thousand in September 2026.
What does the number of jobs in private service-providing industries measure?
Private service-providing industries are the service-providing industries without government. The line is total private employment less the goods-producing industries.
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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 numbers behind the chart
What was the number of jobs in private service-providing industries in each month?The last ten years, 120 months, newest first; the chart and the file have every month since Jan 1939
| Month | Value | Change over a year |
|---|---|---|
| 114,094 thousand | +0.5% | |
| 114,066 thousand | +0.5% | |
| 114,011 thousand | +0.5% | |
| 114,018 thousand | +0.6% | |
| 114,006 thousand | +0.5% | |
| 113,948 thousand | +0.5% | |
| 113,804 thousand | +0.5% | |
| 113,635 thousand | +0.4% | |
| 113,762 thousand | +0.5% | |
| 113,627 thousand | +0.4% | |
| 113,613 thousand | +0.6% | |
| 113,566 thousand | +0.6% | |
| 113,533 thousand | +0.6% | |
| 113,476 thousand | +0.7% | |
| 113,461 thousand | +0.7% | |
| 113,373 thousand | +0.6% | |
| 113,399 thousand | +0.7% | |
| 113,362 thousand | +0.7% | |
| 113,259 thousand | +0.6% | |
| 113,191 thousand | +0.7% | |
| 113,152 thousand | +0.8% | |
| 113,196 thousand | +0.9% | |
| 112,973 thousand | +0.8% | |
| 112,878 thousand | +0.8% |
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| Month | Value | Change over a year |
|---|---|---|
| 112,829 thousand | +0.8% | |
| 112,693 thousand | +0.8% | |
| 112,712 thousand | +0.9% | |
| 112,726 thousand | +1.0% | |
| 112,653 thousand | +1.1% | |
| 112,602 thousand | +1.2% | |
| 112,534 thousand | +1.3% | |
| 112,410 thousand | +1.2% | |
| 112,261 thousand | +1.3% | |
| 112,156 thousand | +1.4% | |
| 112,084 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 112,027 thousand | +1.6% | |
| 111,903 thousand | +1.7% | |
| 111,810 thousand | +1.8% | |
| 111,686 thousand | +1.9% | |
| 111,567 thousand | +2.3% | |
| 111,457 thousand | +2.5% | |
| 111,257 thousand | +2.5% | |
| 111,106 thousand | +2.6% | |
| 111,054 thousand | +2.9% | |
| 110,823 thousand | +3.4% | |
| 110,570 thousand | +3.3% | |
| 110,480 thousand | +3.7% | |
| 110,298 thousand | +4.0% | |
| 109,990 thousand | +4.5% | |
| 109,811 thousand | +4.8% | |
| 109,560 thousand | +4.9% | |
| 109,080 thousand | +5.3% | |
| 108,726 thousand | +5.6% | |
| 108,534 thousand | +5.8% | |
| 108,327 thousand | +6.0% | |
| 107,960 thousand | +6.2% | |
| 107,220 thousand | +6.1% | |
| 107,045 thousand | +6.2% | |
| 106,552 thousand | +5.4% | |
| 106,005 thousand | +5.3% | |
| 105,226 thousand | +5.3% | |
| 104,828 thousand | +5.8% | |
| 104,432 thousand | +6.6% | |
| 103,590 thousand | +7.3% | |
| 102,972 thousand | +11.4% | |
| 102,546 thousand | +13.9% | |
| 102,207 thousand | −4.6% | |
| 101,637 thousand | −6.2% | |
| 101,069 thousand | −6.6% | |
| 100,803 thousand | −6.7% | |
| 101,057 thousand | −6.4% | |
| 100,712 thousand | −6.6% | |
| 99,970 thousand | −7.1% | |
| 99,035 thousand | −7.9% | |
| 98,003 thousand | −8.7% | |
| 96,571 thousand | −9.9% | |
| 92,438 thousand | −13.7% | |
| 89,994 thousand | −15.9% | |
| 107,165 thousand | +0.4% | |
| 108,399 thousand | +1.7% | |
| 108,251 thousand | +1.6% | |
| 108,088 thousand | +1.6% | |
| 107,935 thousand | +1.6% | |
| 107,787 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 107,661 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 107,506 thousand | +1.4% | |
| 107,321 thousand | +1.4% | |
| 107,211 thousand | +1.3% | |
| 107,062 thousand | +1.3% | |
| 106,980 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 106,771 thousand | +1.3% | |
| 106,622 thousand | +1.4% | |
| 106,592 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 106,398 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 106,283 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 106,187 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 106,061 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 106,037 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 105,860 thousand | +1.4% | |
| 105,800 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 105,670 thousand | +1.6% | |
| 105,447 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 105,369 thousand | +1.6% | |
| 105,193 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 104,968 thousand | +1.4% | |
| 104,853 thousand | +1.5% | |
| 104,762 thousand | +1.6% | |
| 104,614 thousand | +1.6% | |
| 104,534 thousand | +1.6% | |
| 104,489 thousand | +1.8% | |
| 104,360 thousand | +1.8% | |
| 104,194 thousand | +1.9% | |
| 104,051 thousand | +2.0% | |
| 103,888 thousand | +1.9% | |
| 103,718 thousand | +1.9% | |
| 103,633 thousand | +2.0% | |
| 103,491 thousand | +2.1% | |
| 103,315 thousand | +2.0% | |
| 103,125 thousand | +2.1% | |
| 103,011 thousand | +2.1% |
How does it compare with the industries on the jobs by industry page?Ranked by the change over a year
| Series | Month | Value | Change over a year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 23,959 thousand | +2.2% | 1 | |
| Private education and health | 28,005 thousand | +1.9% | 2 | |
| Utilities | 612 thousand | +1.7% | 3 | |
| Construction | 8,364 thousand | +1.3% | 4 | |
| Durable goods | 7,898 thousand | +1.1% | 5 | |
| Professional, scientific, technical | 10,844 thousand | +0.8% | 6 | |
| Accommodation and food services | 14,310 thousand | +0.7% | 7 | |
| Goods-producing | 21,623 thousand | +0.7% | 7 | |
| Other services | 6,039 thousand | +0.6% | 9 | |
| Professional and business services | 22,482 thousand | +0.6% | 9 | |
| Administrative, support, waste | 9,019 thousand | +0.5% | 11 | |
| Private service-providing (this page) | 114,094 thousand | +0.5% | 11 | |
| Total private | 135,717 thousand | +0.5% | 11 | |
| Leisure and hospitality | 16,969 thousand | +0.4% | 14 | |
| Wholesale trade | 6,078 thousand | +0.4% | 14 | |
| Local government | 15,173 thousand | +0.3% | 16 | |
| Manufacturing | 12,652 thousand | +0.3% | 16 | |
| Mining and logging | 607 thousand | +0.3% | 16 | |
| Service-providing | 137,421 thousand | +0.3% | 16 | |
| Total nonfarm | 159,044 thousand | +0.3% | 16 | |
| Retail trade | 15,480 thousand | +0.2% | 21 | |
| Trade, transportation, utilities | 28,778 thousand | +0.2% | 21 | |
| Mining, oil and gas extraction | 567 thousand | +0.1% | 23 | |
| Private education | 4,046 thousand | −0.1% | 24 | |
| Transportation and warehousing | 6,609 thousand | −0.1% | 24 | |
| Management of companies | 2,620 thousand | −0.3% | 26 | |
| State government | 5,472 thousand | −0.5% | 27 | |
| Real estate, rental, leasing | 2,438 thousand | −0.6% | 28 | |
| Government | 23,327 thousand | −0.9% | 29 | |
| Nondurable goods | 4,754 thousand | −0.9% | 29 | |
| Financial activities | 9,082 thousand | −1.2% | 31 | |
| Finance and insurance | 6,645 thousand | −1.4% | 32 | |
| Arts, entertainment, recreation | 2,659 thousand | −1.6% | 33 | |
| Information | 2,739 thousand | −4.2% | 34 | |
| Federal government | 2,682 thousand | −8.0% | 35 |
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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 1939.
- JOLTS has no line for exactly this group of industries, so no job openings, hires, quits or layoffs are shown beside the count of jobs.
- The changes, the ranks and the highest and lowest values are ours, worked out from the values BLS publishes; a change is in percent.
Observed . Checked .
How to cite this
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, Private service-providing, seasonally adjusted, through September 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "How many jobs are there in private service-providing industries?", https://500metrics.com/jobs-by-industry/private-service-providing.
Can the data be downloaded?jobs-by-industry-private-service-providing.csv
Download the full history as CSV: 1,053 rows, to , 19,187 bytes.
Our text and compilation: CC BY 4.0.
Recession dates from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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