The local work report
Work in Oklahoma
16,447
Live openings our index could see in Oklahoma.
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.
1,606
9.8% of openings in Oklahoma
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 14,841 openings in Oklahoma 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 15,191 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
4,14127.3%
Transportation and driving
1,87312.3%
Sales and marketing
1,3198.7%
Technology and software
1,1957.9%
Retail
1,1227.4%
Manufacturing
9046.0%
Skilled trades
7915.2%
Customer service
6804.5%
Food service
6414.2%
Warehouse and logistics
5643.7%
Finance and accounting
4062.7%
Office and administration
3312.2%
Childcare and education
3292.2%
Business and operations
3252.1%
Hospitality
1651.1%
General labor
1290.8%
Security and safety
790.5%
Beauty and wellness
690.5%
Creative and media
690.5%
Agriculture and natural resources
230.2%
Engineering
220.1%
Community and social services
80.1%
Science and research
60.0%
A further 1,256 live openings in Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma 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.
Oklahoma City
8,220
Nichols Hills
2,629
Midwest City
588
Warr Acres
559
Tulsa
549
Valley Brook
504
Moore
346
Woodlawn Park
306
Del City
254
Norman
158
Village
152
Mustang
148
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.
- 1,606
- Reads as entry level
- 11,080
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 3,761
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Oklahoma at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Oklahoma labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Oklahoma is about average for the states we can read. We hold 42 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 Oklahoma’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.