The local work report
Work in New Hampshire
21,147
Live openings our index could see in New Hampshire.
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.
2,884
13.6% of openings in New Hampshire
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 18,263 openings in New Hampshire 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 19,255 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
5,71529.7%
Transportation and driving
2,92615.2%
Retail
2,23211.6%
Sales and marketing
1,2226.3%
Technology and software
1,1255.8%
Childcare and education
1,0505.5%
Manufacturing
9895.1%
Customer service
7674.0%
Food service
6543.4%
Warehouse and logistics
6143.2%
Skilled trades
5612.9%
General labor
2881.5%
Office and administration
2861.5%
Finance and accounting
2401.2%
Business and operations
1861.0%
Hospitality
1600.8%
Security and safety
1130.6%
Creative and media
690.4%
Beauty and wellness
380.2%
Engineering
90.0%
Agriculture and natural resources
50.0%
Community and social services
40.0%
Science and research
20.0%
A further 1,892 live openings in New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire 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.
Concord
2,153
Manchester
1,877
Nashua
1,551
Portsmouth
994
West Lebanon
916
Keene
647
Merrimack
565
Hudson
406
Salem
375
Bedford
365
Exeter
365
Londonderry
320
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.
- 2,884
- Reads as entry level
- 15,384
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 2,879
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for New Hampshire at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the New Hampshire labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of New Hampshire is richer than our coverage of most states. We hold 154 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 New Hampshire’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.