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Current Employment Statistics (CES5553000001) · Real estate, rental, leasing, seasonally adjusted

How many jobs are there in real estate and rental and leasing?

The number of jobs in real estate and rental and leasing was 2,438 thousand in the month ended , down 0.6% from a year earlier (preliminary).

Jobs in real estate and rental and leasing, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, each month

January 1990 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as published

Jobs in real estate and rental and leasing, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, each month (January 1990 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Jobs in real estate and rental and leasing, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, each month (September 2016 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Jobs in real estate and rental and leasing, 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 real estate and rental and leasing, in thousands, change from a year earlier, each month (ours)

January 1990 to September 2026Ours, from the published values

Jobs in real estate and rental and leasing, in thousands, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (January 1990 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Jobs in real estate and rental and leasing, in thousands, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (September 2016 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Jobs in real estate and rental and leasing, 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 .

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".

MeasureLatestThe month beforeA year earlierFive years earlierTen years earlier
Month
Jobs in real estate and rental and leasing, in thousands2,438 thousand2,437 thousand2,451 thousand2,292 thousand2,153 thousand
Change over a year−0.6%−0.6%0.0%+4.9%+2.6%

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Observed .

Right now

The number of jobs in real estate and rental and leasing was 2,438 thousand in September 2026, the highest since July 2026.

Over a year it is down 0.6% (ours). The source marks this value preliminary.

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ChangeOurs

PeriodThenChange
One month2,437 thousand in 0.0%
Three months2,437 thousand in 0.0%
Twelve months2,451 thousand in −0.6%
Five years2,292 thousand in +6.4%
Ten years2,153 thousand in +13.2%

In historyOurs

The number of jobs in real estate and rental and leasing of 2,438 thousand in was higher than in 400 of the 440 other months since , the same in 0 and lower in 40.

Highest since : 2,472 thousand in . Lowest since : 1,614 thousand in .

AverageOurs

Average since : 2,051.6 thousand (ours, a plain mean of the 441 months).

ComparedOurs

Over a year the number of jobs in real estate and rental and leasing is down 0.6%, which ranks 28 of the 35 rows of the table, where 1 is the largest change.

The table sets the number of jobs in real estate and rental and leasing 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 3 industries inside real estate, rental, leasing that BLS reports, the change over a year was largest for rental and leasing services, down 0.3%, and smallest for lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works), down 4.6% (ours).

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Openings and turnoverJob Openings and Labor Turnover Survey

In August 2026 the survey counted, for real estate and rental and leasing, 50 thousand job openings, 54 thousand hires, 22 thousand quits and 18 thousand layoffs and discharges.

Over a year the counts are job openings down 45.1%, hires down 6.9%, quits down 43.6% and layoffs and discharges down 14.3% (ours).

Job openings, hires, quits and layoffs in real estate and rental and leasing

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 real estate and rental and leasing, one row for each measure
  • Job openings5050 to 189
  • Hires5442 to 121
  • Quits2218 to 74
  • Layoffs and discharges188 to 178

Each row is one measure of the second survey for real estate and rental and leasing, 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 real estate and rental and leasing

Where it stands today

The number of jobs in real estate and rental and leasing was 2,438 thousand in September 2026.

What does the number of jobs in real estate and rental and leasing measure?

Real estate and rental and leasing covers businesses that lease, sell, manage or appraise property, and those that rent out goods such as cars, equipment and household items.

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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 real estate and rental and leasing in each month?The last ten years, 120 months, newest first; the chart and the file have every month since Jan 1990
Jobs in real estate and rental and leasing, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, by month, newest first (Thousands of jobs; the change ours)
MonthValueChange over a year
2,438 thousand−0.6%
2,437 thousand−0.6%
2,439 thousand−0.7%
2,437 thousand−1.1%
2,439 thousand−1.1%
2,441 thousand−0.9%
2,444 thousand−0.6%
2,441 thousand−0.7%
2,437 thousand−0.8%
2,452 thousand−0.2%
2,450 thousand−0.2%
2,446 thousand−0.4%
2,451 thousand0.0%
2,452 thousand−0.1%
2,456 thousand+0.3%
2,463 thousand+0.5%
2,466 thousand+0.6%
2,465 thousand+0.5%
2,458 thousand−0.2%
2,459 thousand−0.2%
2,456 thousand−0.4%
2,456 thousand−0.7%
2,455 thousand−0.6%
2,456 thousand−0.4%
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MonthValueChange over a year
2,452 thousand−0.6%
2,453 thousand−0.4%
2,449 thousand−0.5%
2,449 thousand−0.2%
2,451 thousand+0.1%
2,453 thousand−0.2%
2,463 thousand+0.9%
2,464 thousand+0.7%
2,467 thousand+1.6%
2,472 thousand+1.5%
2,469 thousand+1.8%
2,465 thousand+2.3%
2,466 thousand+2.3%
2,463 thousand+2.7%
2,462 thousand+3.2%
2,454 thousand+2.9%
2,449 thousand+3.0%
2,457 thousand+4.0%
2,441 thousand+3.8%
2,446 thousand+4.8%
2,428 thousand+4.8%
2,435 thousand+4.7%
2,424 thousand+4.6%
2,410 thousand+4.6%
2,411 thousand+5.2%
2,400 thousand+5.2%
2,386 thousand+5.1%
2,384 thousand+5.8%
2,378 thousand+6.1%
2,362 thousand+6.0%
2,352 thousand+6.2%
2,335 thousand+6.0%
2,317 thousand+5.0%
2,326 thousand+5.4%
2,318 thousand+5.5%
2,305 thousand+5.1%
2,292 thousand+4.9%
2,282 thousand+5.1%
2,271 thousand+5.3%
2,253 thousand+4.6%
2,242 thousand+5.0%
2,229 thousand+5.0%
2,214 thousand−5.5%
2,203 thousand−6.8%
2,207 thousand−5.9%
2,207 thousand−5.8%
2,197 thousand−6.1%
2,192 thousand−6.1%
2,185 thousand−6.1%
2,172 thousand−6.8%
2,156 thousand−7.2%
2,153 thousand−7.2%
2,135 thousand−7.8%
2,122 thousand−8.2%
2,344 thousand+1.6%
2,365 thousand+3.0%
2,346 thousand+2.4%
2,343 thousand+2.7%
2,339 thousand+3.0%
2,334 thousand+2.6%
2,327 thousand+2.5%
2,331 thousand+3.1%
2,323 thousand+3.0%
2,321 thousand+3.2%
2,316 thousand+3.2%
2,312 thousand+3.4%
2,307 thousand+3.0%
2,296 thousand+3.0%
2,292 thousand+3.2%
2,281 thousand+2.8%
2,272 thousand+2.5%
2,275 thousand+3.2%
2,270 thousand+3.4%
2,261 thousand+3.1%
2,256 thousand+3.1%
2,249 thousand+2.8%
2,244 thousand+3.0%
2,236 thousand+2.9%
2,240 thousand+3.2%
2,230 thousand+2.8%
2,221 thousand+2.5%
2,219 thousand+2.7%
2,217 thousand+2.8%
2,204 thousand+2.5%
2,196 thousand+2.0%
2,193 thousand+2.0%
2,189 thousand+1.8%
2,188 thousand+2.2%
2,179 thousand+2.2%
2,174 thousand+2.3%
2,170 thousand+2.5%
2,168 thousand+2.5%
2,166 thousand+2.4%
2,160 thousand+2.4%
2,155 thousand+2.4%
2,150 thousand+2.3%
How does it compare with the industries on the jobs by industry page?Ranked by the change over a year
Jobs in real estate and rental and leasing, 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 real estate, rental, leasing?Newest month of each industry
The industries inside real estate, rental, leasing, 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
Real estate1,842 thousand75.6%−0.6%2
Rental and leasing services575 thousand23.6%−0.3%1
Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works)21 thousand0.9%−4.6%3

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How many job openings, hires, quits and layoffs were there in real estate and rental and leasing?Newest month of each measure
Job openings, hires, quits and layoffs in real estate and rental and leasing, 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 openings50 thousand2.0%−45.1%the lowest since January 2014
Hires54 thousand2.2%−6.9%the lowest since June 2026
Quits22 thousand0.9%−43.6%the lowest since August 2024
Layoffs and discharges18 thousand0.7%−14.3%the highest since April 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, Real estate, rental, leasing, 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 real estate and rental and leasing?", https://500metrics.com/jobs-by-industry/real-estate-rental-leasing.

Can the data be downloaded?jobs-by-industry-real-estate-rental-leasing.csv

Download the full history as CSV: 441 rows, to , 8,481 bytes.

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