The local work report
Work in Nevada
22,622
Live openings our index could see in Nevada.
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.
2,767
12.2% of openings in Nevada
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 19,855 openings in Nevada 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 20,643 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
4,29620.8%
Transportation and driving
2,92614.2%
Retail
1,9349.4%
Sales and marketing
1,8398.9%
Skilled trades
1,2686.1%
Warehouse and logistics
1,1965.8%
Food service
1,0775.2%
Technology and software
1,0565.1%
Customer service
1,0295.0%
Manufacturing
9324.5%
Childcare and education
6593.2%
Office and administration
4972.4%
Finance and accounting
4472.2%
Hospitality
3611.7%
Business and operations
3601.7%
Security and safety
2431.2%
General labor
1790.9%
Beauty and wellness
1700.8%
Creative and media
1100.5%
Engineering
230.1%
Science and research
200.1%
Agriculture and natural resources
180.1%
Community and social services
30.0%
A further 1,979 live openings in Nevada 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 Nevada 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.
Las Vegas
3,900
Reno
2,076
Paradise
1,552
Carson Mall
1,414
Sierra
852
Sparks
787
Spring Valley
737
North Las Vegas
729
Henderson
630
Cover
561
Calico Ridge
472
Enterprise
471
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.
- 2,767
- Reads as entry level
- 15,733
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 4,122
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Nevada at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Nevada labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Nevada is richer than our coverage of most states. We hold 73 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 Nevada’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.