The local work report
Work in Missouri
35,779
Live openings our index could see in Missouri.
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.
4,869
13.6% of openings in Missouri
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 30,910 openings in Missouri 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 34,374 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
8,23123.9%
Transportation and driving
4,33812.6%
Retail
3,4109.9%
Skilled trades
2,4817.2%
Sales and marketing
2,1646.3%
Customer service
2,1416.2%
Food service
2,0175.9%
Childcare and education
1,9485.7%
Manufacturing
1,4584.2%
Technology and software
1,4504.2%
Warehouse and logistics
1,3624.0%
Finance and accounting
7522.2%
Office and administration
7472.2%
Hospitality
5281.5%
Security and safety
4211.2%
Business and operations
3531.0%
General labor
2990.9%
Beauty and wellness
780.2%
Creative and media
630.2%
Engineering
560.2%
Agriculture and natural resources
450.1%
Science and research
160.0%
Community and social services
160.0%
A further 1,405 live openings in Missouri 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 Missouri 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.
Kansas City
3,114
Saint Louis
2,333
Springfield
1,330
Manchester
919
St. Louis
884
Wellston
832
Cedar
761
Columbia
574
Lees Summit
468
Chesterfield
382
Raytown
329
Creve Coeur
326
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.
- 4,869
- Reads as entry level
- 25,826
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 5,084
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Missouri at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Missouri labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Missouri is about average for the states we can read. We hold 58 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 Missouri’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.