The local work report
Work in Maine
11,280
Live openings our index could see in Maine.
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.
1,484
13.2% of openings in Maine
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 9,796 openings in Maine 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 9,747 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
2,81828.9%
Retail
1,52315.6%
Transportation and driving
97610.0%
Sales and marketing
8658.9%
Customer service
5806.0%
Manufacturing
5105.2%
Technology and software
4734.9%
Food service
3693.8%
Warehouse and logistics
3553.6%
Skilled trades
3173.3%
Childcare and education
2692.8%
Finance and accounting
1521.6%
Office and administration
1341.4%
Business and operations
1151.2%
General labor
900.9%
Hospitality
670.7%
Security and safety
540.6%
Creative and media
330.3%
Beauty and wellness
140.1%
Agriculture and natural resources
130.1%
Engineering
100.1%
Science and research
60.1%
Community and social services
40.0%
A further 1,533 live openings in Maine 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 Maine 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.
Augusta
1,335
Portland
790
Bangor
506
Lewiston
365
Westbrook
310
South Portland
245
Auburn
230
Brunswick
225
Biddeford
170
West Scarborough
150
South Paris
147
Saco
136
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.
- 1,484
- Reads as entry level
- 8,252
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 1,544
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Maine at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Maine labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Maine is richer than our coverage of most states. We hold 83 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 Maine’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.