Labor Market Information Services
Job Vacancies in Kansas
| Local Area III |
2008 Job Vacancy Survey |
Kansas employers in Local Area III reported an estimated 13,816 job vacancies during the second quarter of 2008. Local Area III includes three counties – Johnson, Leavenworth and Wyandotte Counties. The average number of individuals unemployed in this area at this time was 19,135. This means on average 1.39 individuals were unemployed for every vacant job, indicating a labor market with high demand for workers.
Sixty–two percent of these openings were full–time, permanent positions. Furthermore, the results indicate an estimated job vacancy rate of 3.3 percent or slightly more than three vacancies for every 100 filled positions.
- Job Vacancies by Industry
The Education and Health Services industry super sector reported the largest number of openings at 3,963, followed by Trade, Transportation and Utilities with 2,691 openings.
The Information industry reported the highest average wage offer ranging from $23.95 to $24.91 per hour.
- Job Vacancies by Occupation
The Sales and Related occupational group reported the largest number of job vacancies with 1,975 and Office and Administrative Support with 1,803 openings.
Healthcare Support and Personal Care and Service occupational groups had the highest job vacancy rates in the area, 11.7 and 8.3 percent respectively.
The Retail Salespersons occupation reported the largest number of job vacancies with 1,386 openings, followed by Registered Nurses with 709 openings; Nursing Aides, Orderlies and Attendants with 655 openings; Waiters and Waitresses with 452 openings; and Food Preparation Workers with 449 openings. These top five occupations accounted for 26 percent of the total job vacancies in this area.
- Job Vacancies by Employer Size
Unlike the other Local Areas, Local Area III reported the largest number of vacancies for employers with 250 plus employees with 4,563 openings or 33 percent of all openings in this area.
- Education
Local Area III reported the lowest percentage of job vacancies requiring no education or only a high school diploma or GED, approximately 55 percent. It also had the highest percentage requiring a bachelor’s or advanced degree, 21 percent.
Local Area III reported higher wages offered for most of the educational categories than the state overall except wages for positions requiring vocational training or an associate’s degree. Those were slightly lower.
As in every other Local Area, the occupation Registered Nurses was one of the top ten occupations requiring a bachelor’s degree in Local Area III and, as in every other area, it had more job vacancies than any other occupation on the list. Local Area III is the only area that didn’t have a teaching–related occupation on the list.
- Starting Wage Offer
The average minimum wage offered for job vacancies in Local Area III was $11.85 per hour, the second highest wage after Local Area II. The average maximum wage offer was $15.08 per hour.
Approximately 29 percent of the job vacancies reported in Local Area III paid at least $12.00 per hour, while 42 percent of all openings paid $6.00 to $11.99 per hour. Only four percent of the job vacancies in this area offered wages of less than $6.00 per hour, the lowest percentage for this pay range of all the Local Areas.
In Local Area III, openings in Computer and Mathematical, Business and Financial Operations, and Healthcare Practitioners and Technical occupations paid the highest wages while Food Preparation and Serving–Related, Personal Care and Service, and Farming, Fishing and Forestry occupations paid the lowest.
Overall, the Local Area III median minimum wage offer was $9.00 per hour. The median maximum wage offer was $12.00 per hour. The median wage offer represents the value in the middle when all wage offers are arranged from lowest to highest.
- Duration of Job Vacancies
As in each of the other Local Areas, the survey showed a majority of all job vacancies in Local Area III had been for jobs that were “always open.”
Several healthcare–related occupations were consistently on the list of the top ten occupations “always open.” In Local Area III, Nursing Aides and Home Health Aides were on this list. Other occupations on this list in Local Area III, and also on the list in most of the other Local Areas, were Waiters and Waitresses and Retail Salespersons.
- Local Area III Tables
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