The local work report
Work in New Jersey
40,694
Live openings our index could see in New Jersey.
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.
7,266
17.9% of openings in New Jersey
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 33,428 openings in New Jersey 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 38,877 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
9,05423.3%
Transportation and driving
4,25410.9%
Retail
4,00710.3%
Childcare and education
2,8227.3%
Technology and software
2,7617.1%
Customer service
2,2895.9%
Sales and marketing
2,2135.7%
Skilled trades
2,1805.6%
Warehouse and logistics
1,6624.3%
Food service
1,6524.2%
Finance and accounting
1,4373.7%
Manufacturing
1,1723.0%
Office and administration
1,1152.9%
Hospitality
7391.9%
Business and operations
5441.4%
Security and safety
3711.0%
General labor
1700.4%
Science and research
1190.3%
Beauty and wellness
1160.3%
Creative and media
830.2%
Engineering
810.2%
Community and social services
280.1%
Legal
40.0%
Agriculture and natural resources
40.0%
A further 1,817 live openings in New Jersey 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 11 places in New Jersey 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.
Jersey City
1,484
Newark
1,200
Trenton
1,010
Princeton
689
Hackensack
587
Tyler Park
528
Edison
520
New Brunswick
484
Camden
399
Paramus
393
Hoboken
392
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.
- 7,266
- Reads as entry level
- 25,609
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 7,819
- 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 Jersey at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the New Jersey labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of New Jersey is about average for the states we can read. We hold 44 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 Jersey’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.