The local work report
Work in Nebraska
21,771
Live openings our index could see in Nebraska.
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.
2,216
10.2% of openings in Nebraska
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 19,555 openings in Nebraska 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 19,732 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
4,98425.3%
Transportation and driving
3,32216.8%
Retail
1,96610.0%
Sales and marketing
1,7078.7%
Technology and software
1,0165.1%
Skilled trades
9344.7%
Food service
9084.6%
Customer service
8014.1%
Childcare and education
7243.7%
Manufacturing
7203.6%
Warehouse and logistics
5802.9%
General labor
3972.0%
Office and administration
3932.0%
Finance and accounting
3631.8%
Business and operations
2871.5%
Hospitality
1931.0%
Security and safety
1060.5%
Creative and media
1010.5%
Beauty and wellness
950.5%
Agriculture and natural resources
870.4%
Engineering
370.2%
Science and research
90.0%
Community and social services
20.0%
A further 2,039 live openings in Nebraska 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 Nebraska 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.
Omaha
3,732
State House
1,928
Lincoln
1,206
Benson
1,151
Grand Island
650
Riverdale
458
Papillion
369
Bellevue
356
Boys Town
331
Ralston
288
North Platte
283
Scottsbluff
279
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.
- 2,216
- Reads as entry level
- 16,434
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 3,121
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Nebraska at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Nebraska labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Nebraska is richer than our coverage of most states. We hold 111 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 Nebraska’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.