The Alabama Department of Labor’s Labor Market Information (LMI) Division reports that online job ads were up in October 2022, 17.3% from last year. The Labor Department reports that there were 109,337 online job ads, which is up 1.7% from September, with an increase of 1,790 online ads.
The five occupations with the most online job ads in the state are registered nurses, retail salespersons, supervisors of retail sales workers, customer service representatives, and software developers. There were 16,126 ads placed for those occupations alone during October.
The Department compiles the help wanted online data from all online job postings in the state, including those posted on the state’s free online jobs database, alabamaworks.alabama.gov, and other sources, such as traditional job boards, corporate boards, and social media sites.
Twenty-six percent of job ads have salaries of $75,000 and above. 22% of the available positions have salaries in the $50,000 to 75,000 range. 20% of the ads have salaries in the $35,000 to 49,000 range. Just 32% of the online ads were for positions with salaries of $35,000 or less.
The top two employers posting the most online ads in October were Huntsville Hospital with 1,487 and UAB Health System with 1,237. The rest of the top 10 were: Encompass Health (678), Walmart/Sam’s (652), University of Alabama at Birmingham (602), Baptist Health (569), Lowe’s (526), Auburn University (450), Walgreens (450), and Aramark (432).
This month the Department of Labor’s help wanted online occupation focus is physical therapists.
Those employed in this occupation assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and improve or correct disabling conditions resulting from disease or injury. Physical Therapists may also plan, prepare, or carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients. Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention. Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in the patient’s chart or enter information into the computer. Typically, this occupation requires a graduate’s degree.
In Alabama, the advertised median salary for Physical Therapists is $79,730. This occupation has 170 total openings in Alabama currently.
Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted October unemployment rate is 2.7%. That is well below October 2021’s rate of 3.1%. The U.S. unemployment rate is 3.4% in October.
“Our wages continue to move in the right direction, more world-leading firms are relocating here every day, and our workforce development efforts are producing newly credentialed workers almost every day,” Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said. It’s more than apparent that we have much to be thankful for as we head into the holiday season.”
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