The local work report
Work in Connecticut
17,650
Live openings our index could see in Connecticut.
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.
2,553
14.5% of openings in Connecticut
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 15,097 openings in Connecticut 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 16,300 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
4,22825.9%
Retail
1,70410.5%
Transportation and driving
1,6169.9%
Childcare and education
1,2537.7%
Sales and marketing
1,0176.2%
Manufacturing
9786.0%
Technology and software
9135.6%
Skilled trades
8505.2%
Customer service
6874.2%
Food service
6413.9%
Finance and accounting
6273.8%
Warehouse and logistics
4772.9%
Office and administration
3842.4%
Business and operations
2591.6%
Hospitality
1551.0%
General labor
1420.9%
Security and safety
1290.8%
Beauty and wellness
1220.7%
Engineering
460.3%
Creative and media
380.2%
Science and research
180.1%
Agriculture and natural resources
110.1%
Community and social services
40.0%
Legal
10.0%
A further 1,350 live openings in Connecticut 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 Connecticut 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.
Talcott Village
973
Stamford
740
Hartford
739
Bridgeport
549
Danbury
505
New Haven
451
Manchester
343
Norwich
276
Wallingford
258
Farmington
249
Greenwich
246
Waterbury
245
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.
- 2,553
- Reads as entry level
- 12,012
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 3,085
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Connecticut at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Connecticut labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Connecticut is about average for the states we can read. We hold 49 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 Connecticut’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.