Best jobs in Little Rock, AR
The best-scoring occupations in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Little Rock, AR (OEWS May 2025). Projected growth and openings are national BLS projections — not a local forecast.
How this ranking is scored
score = .40·pay + .30·growth + .20·employment + .10·openings
Each factor is scaled to the strongest occupation on this list, then weighted and summed. Weights differ by list type. Full methodology.
Wages — OEWS May 2025 (metro)
Growth & openings — EP 2024–34 (national)
How Little Rock, AR pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$126,680 vs $132,300 · -4.2%
$214,790 vs $107,310 · +100.2%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 674 scored occupations — show all 674show top 25
#
Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
155
$55,190
+0.3%
22
168
$52,770
+3.1%
21
192
$54,260
+3.7%
20
254
$38,850
-1.6%
17
267
$75,170
+1.9%
17
312
$40,420
+6.3%
16
373
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$37,420
+4.6%
14
414
$49,900
+2.3%
13
495
$48,510
+1.2%
11
525
—†
-1.1%
10†
534
—†
-19.6%
10†
560
$45,410
-3.8%
10
573
$37,210
+2.0%
9
594
$42,720
-12.1%
9
598
$49,980
-13.7%
9
603
—†
-12.0%
9†
619
$45,490
-4.3%
8
Live jobs in Little Rock, AR
Veterans Health AdministrationVerified from company ATS
Nursing Assistant
$37,544–$61,299/yr View job →
Growth and openings are national (BLS EP 2024–34) — state-level projections are not in this data pull, so the same national figure is used for every place and we say so rather than guess. † local wage not published for this cell — the score uses the state value and the pay column shows a dash.