 While in earlier times the greater part of Reipoltskirchen's population earned their livelihoods at agriculture, shifts in economic structure, particularly after the Second World War, have led to only one in five villagers still working the land.The greater part of the workforce must now commute to work, mainly to Kaiserslautern, Wolfstein and Lauterecken.However, even earlier than the war, there had been job opportunities in fields other than farming, such as craft occupations, work in stone quarries and mines and in the service of the resident lordship.