State labor market
Arkansas labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Arkansas. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Arkansas hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Arkansas.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Arkansas workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
General and operations managers
34,570estimated employmentHeavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers
32,220estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Arkansas figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$78,940/yr Arkansas median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$104,490/yr Arkansas median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$49,070/yr Arkansas median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$66,330/yr Arkansas median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$52,700/yr Arkansas median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$136,520/yr Arkansas median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Arkansas occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Arkansas workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Health specialties teachers, postsecondary$124,890/yr state median · 2,080 workers+16.4%vs. U.S. $107,310/yr
- Computer programmers$111,840/yr state median · 1,050 workers+11.4%vs. U.S. $100,390/yr
- Chemical equipment operators and tenders$64,440/yr state median · 1,160 workers+11.0%vs. U.S. $58,040/yr
- Machine feeders and offbearers$45,250/yr state median · 1,580 workers+9.8%vs. U.S. $41,220/yr
- Occupational therapists$106,360/yr state median · 2,160 workers+6.0%vs. U.S. $100,330/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Physicians, all other$136,880/yr state median · 4,290 workers-48.5%vs. U.S. $265,930/yr
- Teaching assistants, postsecondary$23,140/yr state median · 2,600 workers-46.1%vs. U.S. $42,910/yr
- Chief executives$119,990/yr state median · 3,550 workers-43.9%vs. U.S. $213,990/yr
- First-line supervisors of police and detectives$62,290/yr state median · 2,100 workers-41.3%vs. U.S. $106,040/yr
- Managers, all other$87,520/yr state median · 5,690 workers-38.3%vs. U.S. $141,900/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Arkansas
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Arkansas. Links marked “Arkansas report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Arkansas report is available.
635 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.