Labor Market Information Division

The five occupations with the most online job ads continue to be for registered nurses, retail salespersons, sales representatives, supervisors of retail salespersons, and heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers with 17,742 ads placed for those occupations in March.

The monthly total of online job ads for December 2021 is up 0.1 percent with 23,765 new online ads.

The monthly total of online job ads for August 2021 is down 1.4 percent with 28,854 new online ads.

As of June 2021, the yearly comparison of online job ads is 88,165, up 110 percent from June 2020.

May’s monthly total was 130 percent higher than it was in May 2020.

Data collected and analyzed by the Alabama Department of Labor’s Labor Market Information (LMI) Division shows that the most online wanted ads were for retail sales people, registered nurses and customer service representatives with 6,878 ads placed for those occupations in November. Total ads are up 12.9 percent over the year. Help Wanted Online (HWOL) … Continued