The local work report
Work in Arkansas
18,076
Live openings our index could see in Arkansas.
Counted exactly, against live rows, . Not a projection and not an annual average. A posting counts if its source still listed it at the most recent crawl.
1,580
8.7% of openings in Arkansas
read as entry level, on our reading of the posting text.
That label is ours, not the employer’s. We read it from the posting, and it is not perfect: in a 3,000-row sample, 0.6% of postings we call entry level carry a senior-sounding word in the title, and some of those are fine (“Shift Supervisor Trainee” really is a trainee role). Treat it as a good guide, not a guarantee.
The other 16,496 openings in Arkansas read as expecting experience a student does not have yet, which is a fact about the route rather than about them.
Which fields are hiring
Ranked by live openings. Shares are of the 16,350 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
2,83817.4%
Transportation and driving
1,90111.6%
Sales and marketing
1,5999.8%
Retail
1,5779.6%
Technology and software
1,2707.8%
Skilled trades
1,0586.5%
Business and operations
8665.3%
Customer service
8425.1%
Manufacturing
7884.8%
Finance and accounting
7684.7%
Warehouse and logistics
7364.5%
Food service
6323.9%
Childcare and education
5623.4%
Office and administration
2941.8%
General labor
1470.9%
Security and safety
1400.9%
Hospitality
1350.8%
Beauty and wellness
880.5%
Creative and media
650.4%
Engineering
140.1%
Agriculture and natural resources
130.1%
Community and social services
110.1%
Science and research
60.0%
A further 1,726 live openings in Arkansas carry no field in our index. They are real postings we have not classified, and they are excluded from the shares above rather than distributed into them.
Where the work is
The 12 places in Arkansas with the most live openings. For most students the honest answer to “can I do this without moving?” is on this list.
Place names are exactly as the employer wrote them and are not normalized, so one city can appear under several labels and a big metro can be split across them. Treat a row as a floor for that place, not as its total.
Bentonville
1,467
Rogers
1,405
Cammack Village
1,165
Springdale
1,076
Fayetteville
1,038
Little Rock
873
Fort Smith
548
Jonesboro
365
Bethel Heights
286
Nashville
255
Russellville
246
Greenland
240
How much experience these postings ask for
Our reading of the posting text, not a field the employer filled in. Every live posting gets one of these three, so unlike the field breakdown above there is no “did not state” residue here — which is itself the sign that the label is inferred rather than reported.
- 1,580
- Reads as entry level
- 10,970
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 5,526
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Arkansas at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Arkansas labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Arkansas is about average for the states we can read. We hold 60 indexed openings per 10,000 residents here, against a median of 47 across the states we can read. That is a fact about our index, not about Arkansas’s economy, and the two are easy to confuse. Across all 52 the ratio between the best and worst covered is more than twentyfold, so comparing one state’s total against another’s tells you more about us than about them.
It is a floor, not a total. Nationally the index held 1,537,993 live US openings, of which 1,308,341 carry a state and 229,652 do not. Those unplaced postings are real work that we cannot put on a map, so every state figure on this page understates what exists.
Some of these postings will already be filled. Employers do not reliably take listings down, so a live posting means “still listed by its source”, not “confirmed open”. Anybody who tells a student otherwise is selling them something.