Job Openings by Industry

Which industries are hiring hardest right now, ranked by live openings across 403,898 tracked listings.

Last updated August 9, 2026 · refreshed weekly · part of the USA Jobs Board market analytics

Industries ranked by live openings

Other / General 145,242

Healthcare 58,836

Retail 42,633

Engineering 36,265

Hospitality 18,553

Sales 17,742

Operations 15,173

Customer Service 11,650

Transportation 9,904

Finance 9,249

Manufacturing 8,590

Education 8,062

Construction 5,819

Marketing 5,470

Human Resources 4,144

Legal 3,437

Creative 3,129

Remote share by industry

The same industries ranked by remote openings.

Other / General 5,287

Engineering 3,942

Sales 3,016

Operations 1,362

Healthcare 865

Marketing 860

Customer Service 682

Finance 647

Human Resources 592

Legal 379

Creative 314

Education 233

Construction 135

Manufacturing 74

Retail 44

Transportation 29

Methodology

USA Jobs Board aggregates live openings directly from employer applicant-tracking systems across all 50 states — no scraped duplicates, no expired reposts. These reports are recomputed weekly from the full corpus: counts reflect listings live at analysis time, and the language analysis covers the complete text of every job description in the corpus. Word frequencies exclude stop-words, numbers, and legal boilerplate; skills are matched from a curated lexicon and counted at most once per listing.