Most Vacant Occupations Local Area Highlights

Top Five Most Vacant Occupations Job Vacancy Rate & Average Wage Offer
Statewide 10% $20
0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500
9% $18
Laborers & Freight, $16.15
Stock & Material $9.18 2,086 8% $16
Labor Market Information Services
Movers, Hand $13.80 $13.61
$12.78 $12.96
7% $12.50 $14
$14.21
Waiters &
1,888
Waitresses $5.54 6% $12
$11.97 $11.70
5% $11.21 $10
$10.72 $10.88
Registered
$23.41 1,670 4% $8
Nurses
3% $6
Nursing Aides,
Orderlies & $9.38 1,641 2% $4
Attendants
1% $2
Truck Drivers, 4.0% 4.9% 4.1% 3.9% 3.8% 3.2%
Heavy & $19.38 1,551 0% $0
Tractor-Trailer Kansas I II III IV V
Local Areas
# of Vacancies Average Minimum Wage Offer Job Vacancy Rate Avg Min Wage Offer Avg Max Wage Offer

The Top Five Most Vacant Occupations:
• Represent almost 17 percent of all job
vacancies in Kansas.
• Include two health care occupations.
• Include two occupations that pay an
average starting wage of more than Kansas is available on the KDOL Web
$19.00 an hour.
The State of Kansas is divided into five
Local Areas for purposes of workforce
AT A GLANCE
development. Information about job
vacancies in each Local Area, what
counties are located in each Local Area
and information about Job Vacancies in
Job Vacancies
in Kansas
2007
site: www.dol.ks.gov.

DID YOU KNOW? The statewide job vacancy rate is 4.0 percent,
or 4 job vacancies for every 100 filled positions.
DID YOU KNOW?
There were 52,229 job vacancies
For further information, please contact Dorothy D. Stites, Director, Labor Market Information Services,
in Kansas during the second
Kansas Department of Labor, 401 S.W. Topeka Boulevard, Topeka, KS 66603-3182
quarter of 2007.
Phone: 785-296-5058 • Web site: www.dol.ks.gov • E-mail: laborstats@dol.ks.gov
K-R&I- P 441 (Rev. 10- 07)
 Education Requirements Starting Wage Offer Employee Benefits
Statewide Job Vacancies Statewide Job Vacancies Statewide Job Vacancies
Percent of Vacancies by Education Percent of Vacancies by Minimum Benefits Offered by Size of Employer
Requirement Hourly Wage Offer
50% $50 Retirement
$21.00 + 8%
40% $40
$18.00 - $20.99 5% Paid
$30.60 Vacation
30% $30
$21.80 $15.00 - $17.99 8%
20% $15.97 $20 Paid Sick
$12.99 Leave
$10.40 $12.00 - $14.99 10%
$8.38
10% $10
Health
$0 $9.00 - $11.99 19% Insurance
0%
No Education
Requirement

High School
Diploma
Vocational
Training

Associate's

Bachelor's

Advanced
Degree

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

$6.00 - $8.99 28%
All Job Vacancies
< $6.00 6% 4 employees or less
5 to 49 employees
50 to 249 employees
% of Vacancies Avg Min Wage Offer 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 250 employees or more

• Job vacancies requiring an advanced • Nearly 31 percent of the job vacancies
degree (masters and above) received reported statewide paid at least $12.00 per
nearly three times the wage of those hour.
requiring high school or a GED. • The statewide median mimumum wage
• Job vacancies which required a offer was $9.75 per hour and the median
bachelor’s degree paid more than twice maximum wage offer was $11.00 per hour.
as much as those only requiring high
• Many factors determine wage levels offered
school or a GED. by employers. Some are the supply and
• Approximately 16 percent (or 8,140) demand of labor in a particular occupation,
of the job vacancies in Kansas required the level at which an employer is looking
bachelor’s or advanced degrees. to hire, the occupation itself and the
educational and licensing requirements.
• The results generally indicate that larger
employers are more likely to offer benefits.
Paid vacation is the most popular benefit
offered by small (4 employees or less)
employers while health insurance is the
most popular benefit offered by employers
with 250 employees or more.
• Only 19 percent of the openings across
Kansas do not include any benefit
package.

DID YOU KNOW? During the second quarter of 2007, an average of 1.23 people were unemployed for every job opening.

More information about Job Vacancies in Kansas is available on the KDOL Web site at
http://www.dol.ks.gov/lmis/jobvacancy/jvs2007/jvs2007.html