The local work report
Work in Wyoming
532
Live openings our index could see in Wyoming.
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.
46
8.6% of openings in Wyoming
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 486 openings in Wyoming 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 518 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Retail
9518.3%
Skilled trades
7414.3%
Food service
7213.9%
Transportation and driving
5310.2%
Healthcare
5310.2%
Sales and marketing
305.8%
Customer service
224.2%
Manufacturing
214.1%
General labor
173.3%
Warehouse and logistics
122.3%
Childcare and education
112.1%
Technology and software
101.9%
Office and administration
101.9%
Engineering
91.7%
Hospitality
81.5%
Creative and media
61.2%
Security and safety
61.2%
Finance and accounting
40.8%
Beauty and wellness
30.6%
Business and operations
10.2%
Community and social services
10.2%
A further 14 live openings in Wyoming 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 Wyoming 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.
Cheyenne
196
Casper
41
Evanston
25
Shell
25
Riverton
21
Rock Springs
20
Laramie
20
Gillette
19
Rawlins
18
Jackson
18
Sheridan
14
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.
- 46
- Reads as entry level
- 382
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 104
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Wyoming at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Wyoming labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Wyoming is thinner than our coverage of most states. We hold 9 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 Wyoming’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.