The local work report
Work in North Dakota
16,073
Live openings our index could see in North Dakota.
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.
1,636
10.2% of openings in North Dakota
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 14,437 openings in North Dakota 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 13,789 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
3,75227.2%
Transportation and driving
2,58818.8%
Sales and marketing
1,46110.6%
Retail
1,0417.5%
Technology and software
7585.5%
Skilled trades
6304.6%
Customer service
5674.1%
Food service
5283.8%
Manufacturing
5163.7%
General labor
3232.3%
Warehouse and logistics
2852.1%
Finance and accounting
2722.0%
Childcare and education
2331.7%
Business and operations
2211.6%
Office and administration
1691.2%
Hospitality
1351.0%
Security and safety
920.7%
Creative and media
880.6%
Agriculture and natural resources
620.4%
Beauty and wellness
580.4%
Engineering
70.1%
Community and social services
20.0%
Science and research
10.0%
A further 2,284 live openings in North Dakota 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 North Dakota 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.
Bismarck
3,238
Fargo
1,988
Dickinson
464
Minot
433
Grand Forks
417
North River
322
West Fargo
285
Devils Lake
269
Mandan
256
Marmon
252
Jamestown
246
Williston
221
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.
- 1,636
- Reads as entry level
- 11,896
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 2,541
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for North Dakota at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the North Dakota labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of North Dakota is richer than our coverage of most states. We hold 206 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 North Dakota’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.