The local work report
Work in Vermont
795
Live openings our index could see in Vermont.
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.
82
10.3% of openings in Vermont
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 713 openings in Vermont 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 761 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
17022.3%
Transportation and driving
9712.7%
Retail
9212.1%
Food service
526.8%
Customer service
455.9%
Technology and software
385.0%
Manufacturing
385.0%
Warehouse and logistics
364.7%
Finance and accounting
354.6%
Sales and marketing
334.3%
Hospitality
324.2%
Skilled trades
303.9%
General labor
202.6%
Office and administration
101.3%
Business and operations
70.9%
Childcare and education
60.8%
Creative and media
50.7%
Security and safety
50.7%
Agriculture and natural resources
40.5%
Community and social services
40.5%
Beauty and wellness
10.1%
Engineering
10.1%
A further 34 live openings in Vermont 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 Vermont 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.
South Burlington
142
Burlington
110
Barnard
45
Williston
31
Rutland
29
Waterbury
25
Essex Junction
24
Brattleboro
23
White River Junction
23
Barre
22
Montpelier
22
Bennington
20
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.
- 82
- Reads as entry level
- 581
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 132
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Vermont at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Vermont labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Vermont is thinner than our coverage of most states. We hold 12 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 Vermont’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.