Business Employment Dynamics
Business Employment Dynamics (BD) - tracking changes in employment at the establishment level, revealing the dynamics underlying net changes in employment through job gains, job losses, establishment openings, closings, expansions, and contractions.
In SQL, this dataset is the rows of bls.series with dataset_code = 'bd'.
Series
Quarterly gross job gains for the total private sector in the United States
thousands of jobs · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Percent of gross job gains for the total private sector in the United States as a percentage of total employment
Percent of employment · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total number of jobs gained from the expansion of existing private sector establishments in the United States
thousands · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
The percentage of total private sector employment gained from business expansions in the United States
percentage of employment · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total private sector employment gained from establishment openings in the United States
thousands · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total quarterly gross job losses for the private sector in the United States
Thousands of jobs · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · 1992 to 2025
The percentage of gross job losses within the total private sector relative to total employment in the United States
percentage of employment · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total number of jobs lost due to business contractions in the United States private sector
thousands of jobs · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total number of jobs lost due to establishment closings in the United States private sector
thousands of jobs · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Percentage of total private sector employment lost due to establishment closings in the United States
Percent · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total number of jobs created by new business establishment births in the United States private sector
Thousands of persons · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total quarterly gross job gains for private sector firms with 1 to 4 employees in the United States
thousands of employees · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
The percentage of gross job gains occurring at private sector establishments with 1 to 4 employees across the United States
Percent · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total private sector employment gained from the expansion of establishments with one to four employees in the United States
thousands of employees · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
The percentage of total employment gained from the expansion of private sector establishments that have between 1 and 4 employees
Percent · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total private sector gross job losses for firms with 1 to 4 employees in the United States
thousands of employees · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
The percentage of gross job losses occurring at private sector firms with one to four employees
Percent · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total number of private sector jobs lost due to contractions at establishments with one to four employees in the United States
thousands of employees · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
The percentage of employment lost due to business contractions at private sector firms with 1 to 4 employees in the United States
Percent · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total private sector employment lost from the closing of establishments with one to four employees in the United States
thousands of employees · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total private sector employment gained from expansions by firms with 5 to 9 employees in the United States
thousands of employees · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
The percentage of employment gained from the expansion of private sector establishments that have between 5 and 9 employees
Percent · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
The percentage of total employment gained from new establishment openings by private sector firms with 5 to 9 employees
Percent · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025
Total quarterly gross job losses for private sector firms with 5 to 9 employees in the United States
thousands of employees · Quarterly · Seasonally adjusted · National, US · 1992 to 2025