MONTGOMERY – Registered nurses, retail sales, supervisors of retail sales workers, fast food and counter workers, sales reps, and wholesale and manufacturing jobs were among the most advertised positions online in the state during December.
The Alabama Department of Labor released data collected and analyzed by the Alabama Department of Labor’s Labor Market Information Division showing that, in December 2023, there were 81,930 job ads posted in Alabama.
Huntsville Hospital had the second-most online ads posted last month with 1,010.
“Nursing is always our greatest need in terms of staffing,” Lucy Berry of Huntsville Hospital Health Systems Marketing and Public Relations told 256 Today. “On the heels of nursing, we also have personnel needs in imaging, which includes angiography, MRI and CT scan. We encourage anyone with an interest in starting or growing their career at HH Health to visit our website – HH.Health (Huntsville Hospital Health System Careers (hh.health) – and click ‘Careers’ on the menu at the top of the page. There, job seekers can view our current openings, learn about our values and much more.’’
The help wanted online data is compiled from all online job postings in the state, including those posted on the state’s free online jobs database, AlabamaWorks.alabama.gov, and other sources, such as traditional job boards, corporate boards, and social media sites.
In December 2023, there were 29,805 total job ads with salaries, including 7,149 jobs ads with salaries of $70,000 and above; 5,156 jobs ads with salaries in the $50-69,000 range; 7,642 jobs ads with salaries in the $35-50,000 range, and 9,858 jobs ads with salaries less than $35,000.
The top two employers posting the most online ads in December were UAB Medicine with 1,012 ads and Huntsville Hospital with 1,010. The rest of the top 10 were: Dollar General (995), the University of Alabama at Birmingham (991), Walmart (887), the University of Alabama (501), Auburn University (490), USA Health (471), Baptist Health (451), and Walgreen’s (428).
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