Job ‘quality’ has become increasingly bifurcated over the last several decades in the United States. Diverse knowledge streams have considered the underlying components of job quality, and these measures are often applied at a national scale. This project considers these bodies of literature, aggregates 28 underlying indicators, and models expected career pathways in constructing a localized, occupation-level index of job quality (LJQI). The LJQI can be useful for researchers and practitioners interested in quantifying local labor market opportunity and well-being. Analysis of the LJQI confirms the prevailing notion in literature that job quality is bifurcated and has become increasingly so from 2006 to 2019. The LJQI estimates local labor market well-being distinctly from traditional measures such as poverty, unemployment, and average earnings. This work addresses the core gap in the literature between theory and methods: developing a multidimensional measure representative of the diverse factors comprising job quality beyond the mere consideration of worker earnings. Applications of this novel measure are discussed.