 Today, the villagers work at the most varied of occupations and by and large, they must commute elsewhere to their jobs.Rutsweiler an der Lauter once had its own school, but today, primary school pupils and Hauptschule students attend their respective schools in Wolfstein.Rutsweiler an der Lauter lies on "Bundesstraße" 270 and on the Lauterecken-Kaiserslautern railway line (the Lauter Valley Railway), although the station Stahlhausen-Rutsweiler, right at the village, closed in 1914.