Healthcare Sector Leads Online Job Ads Bump in January

The Conference Board data show that for every unemployed person looking for work as a healthcare practitioner or technical occupation in January, there were three advertised vacancies with an average wage of $32.64/hour. Because healthcare is a broad field, the report notes that the relative tightness of the labor market varies substantially from the higher-paying practitioner and technical jobs to the lower-paying support occupations.

For some lower-paid healthcare support occupations, such as dental assistants and pharmacy aides, there were more than two unemployed people for every advertised vacancy, with an average wage of $12.66/hour, The Conference Board report states.