How this works
This is a directory of employers, not a job board. We do not host job descriptions, take applications, or place anyone. Every button here sends you to an employer's own careers site, which is where you apply.
Where the numbers come from
A person opens each employer's careers page, filters it to the Portland metro area, and counts what is actually posted. That count and the date it was taken are what you see on the card. Nothing is scraped and nothing is estimated.
Counts go stale. The date on each card is the honest answer to "when was this true?" If a card says it was checked six weeks ago, treat the number as a rough signal about how much that employer hires, not as today's vacancy list.
What "Portland metro" means
Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties in Oregon, plus Clark County in Washington. That is the area you can realistically commute within.
Deliberately not counted, even when the employer posts them: Salem, Woodburn, Keizer, Bend, Eugene, McMinnville, the coast, the Seattle area, and remote corporate roles. A national employer might show 400 openings on their own site and 12 here. The 12 are the ones you could take.
"Apply anytime" is not zero
Some employers, mostly staffing agencies and day labor services, keep a standing open call and never publish a list of specific openings. There is nothing to count, so we show Apply anytime instead of a number.
This is the opposite of "not hiring." An agency with no posted list will often place you faster than an employer sitting on forty postings. We never write a 0 for these, because a 0 would read as a closed door.
Remote employers are opt-in
Some employers here hire remotely and have no Portland office. Their openings are real and often open to Oregon residents, but they are not Portland-metro jobs, so they are hidden from the main list until you tick the Remote/Hybrid filter. Their numbers also stay out of the total at the top of the page, and their cards label the count remote rather than showing it as local hiring.
This matters because a national remote req pool can be five times an employer's actual local hiring. Counting those as Portland jobs would make this board look better and be worth less. An employer who works hybrid but has a real Portland office is a Portland job and stays in the main list.
Employers with no count yet
A dash means we have not counted this employer yet, not that they have nothing. They are hidden by the "only employers hiring" filter, which is on by default. Turn it off to see the whole directory.
Caution flags
A small number of listings carry a caution flag. It means we have documented a specific eligibility trap: the employer is not licensed in Oregon, the role requires residency in another state, the "job" is actually a paid course, or the site itself has been compromised.
These entries stay in the directory rather than being deleted, because people find them anyway. The flag is there because peers in our community already spent applications on them.
Job boards are marked as job boards
A few listings are aggregators that carry other organizations' postings rather than hiring themselves. They are labelled and never get an openings count, so a board's listing volume never gets mistaken for one employer's hiring.
Portland links, and links that are not
Where an employer's careers site supports it, the button says See Portland jobs and drops you into a result set already filtered to the metro area. Most employers do not support that, so the button says Open careers siteand the card tells you to search "Portland, OR" once you are there. We would rather say that plainly than pretend every link is a shortcut.
Being listed here is not an endorsement
There is no guarantee that these employers love trans people. We have not audited their cultures and we cannot promise you a good day at work. What this is: a unique way to start a job search, with links to hundreds of jobs listed on employers' actual websites.
Where we know something concrete, we say it on the card: an HRC score, gender-affirming healthcare coverage, an LGBTQ employee group, a documented second-chance hiring program. Those are facts about policies, not predictions about a manager.
Your rights when you apply, in Oregon
No employer in Oregon can ask about convictions before your first interview. In Portland, an employer cannot run a background check until after they have made you a job offer. That protection is yours regardless of what any company says about itself, and regardless of what is written on this page.
Something wrong?
If a link is dead, a count is badly off, or an employer belongs here and is missing, tell us at jobs@werqt.org. Corrections from people actually applying are the fastest way this stays true.