The local work report
Work in Idaho
12,532
Live openings our index could see in Idaho.
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.
1,322
10.5% of openings in Idaho
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 11,210 openings in Idaho 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 11,115 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
2,28820.6%
Transportation and driving
1,76015.8%
Retail
1,0869.8%
Sales and marketing
1,0209.2%
Manufacturing
7997.2%
Technology and software
6445.8%
Customer service
6305.7%
Skilled trades
5695.1%
Food service
5294.8%
Warehouse and logistics
3783.4%
Childcare and education
3152.8%
Finance and accounting
2131.9%
Office and administration
1961.8%
Business and operations
1761.6%
General labor
1641.5%
Hospitality
1411.3%
Beauty and wellness
450.4%
Creative and media
440.4%
Agriculture and natural resources
390.4%
Security and safety
390.4%
Engineering
380.3%
Science and research
10.0%
Community and social services
10.0%
A further 1,417 live openings in Idaho 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 Idaho 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.
Boise
2,522
Meridian
766
Nampa
641
Idaho City
576
Lewiston
367
Twin Falls
352
Main Site
340
Caldwell
317
Ustick
285
Westwood Village
266
Idaho Falls
264
Beachs Corner
200
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.
- 1,322
- Reads as entry level
- 9,062
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 2,148
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Idaho at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Idaho labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Idaho 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 Idaho’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.