Lane County Job Vacancies in 2019
March 10, 2020 During 2019, private employers in Lane County were looking to fill roughly 5,400 job vacancies at any given time, up from 5,100 in 2018 according to new annual figures from the Oregon Employment Department’s Job Vacancy Survey. The Job Vacancy Survey provides a snapshot of the market job seekers face.
The average starting wage offered by employers in Lane County was $17.31 compared with $18.81 statewide. Although the average wage was lower than the statewide average, Lane County had a slightly higher percentage of vacancies that required education beyond high school. Still, 63 percent of jobs required a high school diploma or less and a little less than half of those had no requirement at all.


With the high demand for health care services, occupations related to the industry were prevalent. Personal care aides had the highest number of job vacancies at 256. Second was nursing assistants at 239, and registered nurses was third with 205 vacancies. Occupations in warehousing and transportation were next with heavy tractor-trailer truck drivers at 179; laborers and freight, stock, and material movers at 164 vacancies.

For more details on statewide and regional vacancies, visit the “publications” tab on QualityInfo.org, click on “download publications” and scroll down to the section titled “Job Vacancy Survey.”