COLUMBUS, Ohio – Jobs posted on-line by way of OhioMeansJobs.com elevated 7,778 in Could, the very best level of job vacancies up to now 4 years.
A complete of 339,393 job vacancies have been posted between April 14 and Could 14, in keeping with a report launched on Friday. That was a rise of 88,388 over the earlier 12 months.
There are extra postings than unemployed jobseekers. In Could, the Ohio Division of Job and Household Companies put its unemployment fee at 3.9%, the bottom in at the least two years. The state’s complete labor drive was 5.79 million, with solely 226,300 unemployed.
Domestically, the unemployment fee in Columbiana County was 3.8%, adopted by Mahoning at 4% and Trumbull at 4.1%.
Statewide, 52.2% of job listings are for upper-middle-income ($50,000-$79,000) and middle-income ($30,000-$49,000) jobs. Higher-middle revenue alternatives got here in at 26.2%, adopted by middle-income at 26%, six-figure jobs at 22%, entry-level (lower than $30,000) at 14.8%, and high-income jobs ($80,000-$99,000) with 11% .
Registered nurse (16,042) continues to steer the occupations with probably the most vacancies in Ohio, adopted by truck and truck drivers (13,422), first-line supervisors of retail workers (11,785), and software program engineers (10,873).
Nationally, the vast majority of job openings are for a high college diploma at 42.2%, intently adopted by GED/high college schooling at 39.6%. In Northeast Ohio, most jobs, 43.7%, are for a GED/high college diploma, with 37.7% requiring a high college diploma. Commercials within the requested area 13.4% have an affiliate diploma, 2.6% have a grasp’s diploma and a pair of.5% have a doctorate, all similar to the nationwide figures.
In Northeast Ohio’s 18-county Mahoning, Columbiana, and Trumbull area, 110,592 job openings have been posted throughout the identical interval, up 1,208 month-on-month and 25,862 year-on-year.
On this area, employers are on the lookout for registered nurses (6,414), retail clerk supervisors (4,669), heavy truck and tractor-trailer drivers (4,193) and retail clerks (3,245).
Wage ranges on this space are 28.7% center revenue, 27.5% higher center revenue, 16.9% entry level, 16.8% six determine, and 10.1% high revenue.
Printed by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.