The local work report
Work in Rhode Island
15,072
Live openings our index could see in Rhode Island.
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.
1,806
12.0% of openings in Rhode Island
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 13,266 openings in Rhode Island 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 13,739 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
3,37324.6%
Transportation and driving
1,83213.3%
Retail
1,2559.1%
Technology and software
1,2038.8%
Sales and marketing
1,0047.3%
Childcare and education
8896.5%
Customer service
6394.7%
Manufacturing
6114.4%
Food service
6084.4%
Warehouse and logistics
4833.5%
Skilled trades
4002.9%
Finance and accounting
3862.8%
Business and operations
3002.2%
Office and administration
2341.7%
Hospitality
1681.2%
General labor
1270.9%
Creative and media
1070.8%
Security and safety
580.4%
Beauty and wellness
360.3%
Agriculture and natural resources
100.1%
Engineering
100.1%
Community and social services
30.0%
Science and research
30.0%
A further 1,333 live openings in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island 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.
Providence
4,563
Warwick
896
Woonsocket
720
Johnston
682
Cranston
629
Newport
566
Middletown
537
North Kingstown
452
Pawtucket
431
East Providence
389
Cumberland
295
Conimicut
259
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.
- 1,806
- Reads as entry level
- 10,021
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 3,245
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Rhode Island at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Rhode Island labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Rhode Island is richer than our coverage of most states. We hold 137 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 Rhode Island’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.