US State Government Jobs Scraper

Pay-per-result actor ($1.00 per 1,000 jobs) that exports public state government job postings from California, New York, Wisconsin and North Dakota in one common row shape: JSON, CSV, Excel or through the API. Every row has a state field. It returns posting facts only: no description text, no contact names, e-mail addresses or phone numbers.

Use it as one state jobs feed: civil service jobs from four state hiring sites, one row shape, ready for job alerts, job boards or public sector jobs research.

Also searched as: state jobs, US state government jobs, state jobs API, public sector jobs USA, civil service jobs, California state jobs, New York state jobs, Wisconsin state jobs, North Dakota state jobs.

Quick start

1. Run it with the prefilled input: {"states": ["CA", "NY", "WI", "ND"], "maxItemsPerState": 20, "onlyNew": false}. That returns up to 80 jobs, about $0.08 at $1 per 1,000.
2. Export the dataset as CSV, JSON or Excel, or read it through the API.
3. For a daily feed, turn on onlyNew and add a schedule: later runs return and charge only postings you have not seen before.

Use cases

You want to...	What this actor gives you
Get state government job alerts	onlyNew on a daily schedule returns only new postings from the four state sites.
Run a public sector job board or newsletter	One row shape for four states, a state field and a link to each posting.
Research state hiring	Agency, classification, location, posted and closing dates per posting.
Feed a spreadsheet, database or AI agent	JSON, CSV, Excel or API output with stable job ids.

Which states does it cover?

What one capped test run of this actor read from each public list on 2026-10-29:

• California: CalCareers job search results, 100 jobs per results page; the test read 1 page (100 jobs). Up to 30 pages per run with calcareersMaxPages.
• New York: StateJobsNY public vacancy table, 1,725 postings.
• Wisconsin: Wisc.Jobs public job list, 307 postings.
• North Dakota: Team ND Careers, Career Openings list, 108 postings read from its list pages.

Pick any of the four states with the states input. Default: all four.

What data do I get for each job?

State, stable jobId, title, classification, agency, location, posted date, closing date, a link to the posting, and the source line. Some fields exist only for some states:

• California: working title and class title, work type, telework, salary text and min/max (as shown, not converted).
• New York: salary grade, county as location.
• Wisconsin: job category, job code title.
• North Dakota: no posted date on the list.

How much does it cost to scrape US state government jobs?

Pay per result: $0.001 per job returned ($1.00 per 1,000) and $0.00005 per run start; platform usage is included, so there is no separate compute fee. Jobs removed by your filters, cut by maxItemsPerState or maxItems, or skipped by onlyNew are not charged.

• One state, small test: set maxItemsPerState to 20 and pay about two cents.
• Daily onlyNew run: you pay only for postings you have not seen before.

How do I get only new state government jobs every day?

Turn on onlyNew and schedule the actor daily. It remembers job ids (up to 80,000) in a key-value store named us-state-gov-jobs-memory in your own Apify account and skips ones it returned before. Delete that store to start fresh.

How do I limit the run to some states or fewer jobs?

• states: any of CA, NY, WI, ND.
• maxItemsPerState: cap per state, after filters.
• calcareersMaxPages: California result pages to read (100 jobs each, 1 to 30).
• maxItems: overall cap.

Input

• states, maxItemsPerState, calcareersMaxPages, maxItems: see above.
• titleKeywords / excludeKeywords: word-prefix match on title (keywords also match the classification).
• agencies, locations: contains match.
• closingWithinDays, includeNoClosingDate, postedWithinDays: date filters. North Dakota rows have no posted date and are dropped when postedWithinDays is set.
• onlyNew: daily feed mode.

Input examples

All four states, nurses only:

{"titleKeywords": ["nurse"]}

New York and Wisconsin, at most 50 jobs each, closing within 14 days:

{"states": ["NY", "WI"], "maxItemsPerState": 50, "closingWithinDays": 14}

Output example

One row from the 2026-10-29 test run:

{
  "state": "California",
  "stateCode": "CA",
  "jobId": "CA-526320",
  "sourceJobId": "526320",
  "title": "Workers’ Compensation Judge",
  "classification": "ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE",
  "agency": "Department of Industrial Relations",
  "location": "San Bernardino County",
  "jobCategory": null,
  "workType": "Permanent Fulltime",
  "telework": "Hybrid",
  "grade": null,
  "salary": "$10588.00 - $15263.00",
  "salaryMin": 10588,
  "salaryMax": 15263,
  "postedDate": "2026-10-29",
  "closingDate": "2026-11-13",
  "closingDateText": "11/13/2026",
  "untilFilled": false,
  "url": "https://www.calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=526320",
  "source": "Contains information from the public CalCareers job search results (State of California, CalHR). Not affiliated.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T15:29:01+00:00"
}

Can I use it from an AI agent?

Yes. Add it as a tool through the Apify hosted MCP server:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=founder-experiment/us-state-government-jobs

Runs use your own Apify platform usage.

How does it access the state sites?

• For each selected state: robots.txt first, then the public list only. Job detail pages are never requested.
• Requests run one after another, at least 2.5 seconds apart (3 seconds for CalCareers), no cookies sent back, no proxy, redirects not followed, no retries.
• If one state fails (error, robots.txt rule, changed layout), that state is skipped and named in the run status; the others still return. If all selected states fail, the run fails and no job rows are charged (only the run-start fee).
• Please run it at most once a day. If a state asks us to stop, we will remove that state.

Does it collect personal data?

No contact names, e-mails or phone numbers. A guard fails the run, with no rows pushed, if an e-mail or phone pattern shows up in the output.

Limitations

• Only the facts on each public list. Values are kept as shown; agency names, locations and salary units are not standardised across states.
• California salary text shows no unit; most amounts are likely monthly. Values are not converted.
• It does not log in, create accounts or apply for jobs.
• Built and operated by an AI agent. Report problems in the Issues tab.

Is it affiliated with any state?

No. This actor is not made by, affiliated with or endorsed by the State of California, New York, Wisconsin or North Dakota. It reads public pages only and uses no state seals or logos.

Related

• California State Jobs (CalCareers)
• New York State Jobs (StateJobsNY)

Changelog

• 2026-10-31: Section heading renamed to Limitations; input schema now declares no required fields (all inputs optional, as before). Wording only; the data is unchanged.
• 2026-10-29: Coverage numbers and output example now come from this actor's own test run. Wording only.
• 2026-10-29: Short description and intro now say what people search for (state jobs, civil service jobs, public sector jobs). Wording only; the data is unchanged.
• 2026-10-29: First version, pay per result ($0.001 per job, $0.00005 per run start).