The local work report
Work in Utah
17,680
Live openings our index could see in Utah.
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.
2,015
11.4% of openings in Utah
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 15,665 openings in Utah 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 16,776 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
2,89717.3%
Transportation and driving
2,05612.3%
Manufacturing
1,4788.8%
Retail
1,4108.4%
Sales and marketing
1,4108.4%
Technology and software
1,3197.9%
Childcare and education
9745.8%
Customer service
8214.9%
Skilled trades
8114.8%
Warehouse and logistics
7134.3%
Food service
7044.2%
Office and administration
4642.8%
Finance and accounting
4292.6%
Business and operations
3492.1%
Hospitality
2371.4%
General labor
2321.4%
Beauty and wellness
1661.0%
Creative and media
1090.6%
Security and safety
1090.6%
Engineering
340.2%
Agriculture and natural resources
280.2%
Science and research
200.1%
Community and social services
60.0%
A further 904 live openings in Utah 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 Utah 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.
Salt Lake City
2,350
Bonnie
1,336
Roy
922
Lehi
523
Salt Lake City, Utah
485
Ogden
482
Salt Lake County
385
Provo
319
Draper
310
Murray
287
West Jordan
279
Logan
276
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.
- 2,015
- Reads as entry level
- 11,869
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 3,796
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Utah at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Utah labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Utah is about average for the states we can read. We hold 54 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 Utah’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.