The local work report
Work in Oregon
28,640
Live openings our index could see in Oregon.
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.
3,373
11.8% of openings in Oregon
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 25,267 openings in Oregon 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 26,239 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
6,64825.3%
Transportation and driving
3,52813.4%
Retail
2,5769.8%
Childcare and education
1,9737.5%
Sales and marketing
1,8537.1%
Food service
1,3275.1%
Manufacturing
1,2334.7%
Technology and software
1,2034.6%
Skilled trades
1,1844.5%
Customer service
1,1164.3%
Warehouse and logistics
9013.4%
Office and administration
5872.2%
Finance and accounting
5582.1%
Hospitality
4191.6%
Business and operations
3211.2%
General labor
3031.2%
Security and safety
1780.7%
Creative and media
1030.4%
Beauty and wellness
890.3%
Community and social services
500.2%
Engineering
410.2%
Agriculture and natural resources
340.1%
Science and research
140.1%
A further 2,401 live openings in Oregon 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 Oregon 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.
Portland
5,108
Salem
2,018
Bend
735
Eugene
709
Beaverton
691
Happy Valley
564
Gresham
522
Hillsboro
509
Hermiston
439
Albany
416
West Slope
413
Medford
405
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.
- 3,373
- Reads as entry level
- 20,936
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 4,331
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Oregon at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Oregon labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Oregon is about average for the states we can read. We hold 68 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 Oregon’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.