The local work report
Work in District of Columbia
3,541
Live openings our index could see in District of Columbia.
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.
344
9.7% of openings in District of Columbia
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 3,197 openings in District of Columbia 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 2,931 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Technology and software
67923.2%
Healthcare
38113.0%
Sales and marketing
36312.4%
Business and operations
2006.8%
Office and administration
1766.0%
Finance and accounting
1675.7%
Transportation and driving
1244.2%
Manufacturing
1214.1%
Food service
1093.7%
Skilled trades
1033.5%
Customer service
772.6%
Retail
682.3%
Creative and media
602.0%
Childcare and education
602.0%
Hospitality
561.9%
Warehouse and logistics
561.9%
Security and safety
311.1%
Engineering
291.0%
General labor
170.6%
Beauty and wellness
170.6%
Legal
120.4%
Community and social services
120.4%
Science and research
110.4%
Agriculture and natural resources
20.1%
A further 610 live openings in District of Columbia 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 11 places in District of Columbia 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.
Washington
3,063
Washington, District of Columbia
84
Washington DC
48
Washington, DC
31
NY
22
Washington D.C.
20
WASHINGTON
18
Remote
17
Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB)
13
MEX
13
Remote (Atlanta
11
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.
- 344
- Reads as entry level
- 1,938
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 1,259
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for District of Columbia at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the District of Columbia labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of District of Columbia is about average for the states we can read. We hold 51 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 District of Columbia’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.