The information displayed on this dashboard has been extracted from 739 online postings for jobs in Amherst, collected in the period from Aug 2024 to Jul 2025. Jobs in Amherst amounted to 0.7% of all jobs in Atlantic Canada. All Amherst job demand information displayed here is extracted from the job postings automatically, with an accuracy of at least 90%. A small error margin of 10% or less is possible, mostly due to the ambiguity of the information that employers provide in their job postings.

182 of all postings for Amherst jobs listed a salary. The average salary advertised in them was $57,666 to $67,433.

The most advertised job categories in Amherst were Store shelf stockers, clerks and order fillers;  Light duty cleaners;  and Automotive service technicians, truck and bus mechanics and mechanical repairers.

The most in-demand required skills that employers listed when advertising jobs in Amherst were Teamwork (required by 57.5% of all Amherst jobs) , Communication skills (43.2%) , and Customer Service (42.1%) .

Employers who advertised job openings in Amherst included Nova Scotia Health Authority,  Loblaw Companies Limited,  and Victorian Order of Nurses / VON.