9,698 Roles Opened and 9,034 Closed This Week Across the Boards We Track

Across the employer job boards we track, 9,034 roles closed in the last seven days while 9,698 opened. Openings and closings ran close to even, with slightly more roles going up than coming down.

The closing count doesn't mean 9,034 jobs disappeared. Boards close listings for lots of reasons — a role gets filled, a requisition expires, a posting gets reworded and reposted. But it is a real measure of how fast the open pool is turning over. Total open listings sit at 56,949 from 691 employers hiring.

New postings fell 20% week over week

New roles came in at 9,698 against 12,193 the prior week, a drop of 20%. That comparison covers only boards we were already tracking before the comparison window began, so boards we onboarded recently don't show up as a fake hiring surge.

Remote was 5% of new postings. On these boards, this was an on-site week.

California led, Michigan moved fastest

These are the 12 states with the most new roles this week.

Jobs in California topped the list at 915 new roles, down 18% from 1,114 the prior week. The sharpest move was Michigan: 262 new, against 168 a week earlier, up 56%. New York was the only other state on the list to grow, to 602 from 579, up 4%.

Every other state on the list went the other way. Massachusetts fell furthest, to 235 new from 458, down 49%. Texas fell to 550 from 714 and Pennsylvania to 220 from 287, both down 23%, and Tennessee to 289 from 366, down 21%. Florida slipped to 458 from 524, down 13%. Ohio (305 from 332), Georgia (217 from 235) and Arizona (213 from 232) each fell 8%, and Illinois edged down 4%, to 243 from 252.

Ten employers posted 29% of the week's new roles

AdventHealth posted the most new roles at 416, on 964 open. Ranger Boats was second with 363 new against 718 open — the highest new-to-open ratio in the top ten, meaning about half its current board went up this week. Cleveland Clinic added 319 (903 open) and Citigroup 299 (511 open).

After that: Tyson Foods 295, Target 292, U.S. Bank 241 (on 941 open, the second-largest board in the group), NVIDIA 221, Accenture 216 and Boeing 196. Together those ten account for 2,858 new listings — 29% of the week's total from 10 of 691 hiring employers.

Health systems, a boat manufacturer, two banks, a grocer-adjacent retailer, a meat processor, a chipmaker, a consultancy and an aerospace firm. No single sector owned the week.

What pays, where employers state a number

What we can report is posted pay by occupation across current open listings — employer-stated ranges annualized to USD, hourly at 2,080 hours, not member-reported figures.

Machine Learning Engineer has the highest posted median at $283,500, but on only 106 listings — a thin pool, so treat it as indicative. Engineering Manager sits at $280,000 across 213 listings. Software Engineer is the deepest pool by far at 1,168 listings with a $240,000 median, and Product Manager is a hair above it at $240,083 on 325.

The spread inside sales is the widest gap here: Account Executive posts a $196,900 median on 178 listings and Sales Manager $176,850 on 124, while Sales Representative sits at $79,250 on 158. Mechanical Engineer ($192,500, 106 listings), Marketing Manager ($179,000, 104) and Financial Analyst ($165,000, 104) round out the list — all small pools.

All 56,949 open roles are searchable now. Start with Job search, or browse the Occupations index and Skills index. If you want to know where these numbers come from, see how we crawl employer boards.

Correction, October 11, 2026: An earlier version of this post counted every closed listing rather than closed roles, and compared each week with the one before using only roles still open, which overstated closures and growth. The figures above have been recomputed, and comparisons the data cannot yet support have been removed.

Correction, October 19, 2026: The pay medians in this post and its chart were calculated from the top of each posted pay range rather than its midpoint, which is the basis our occupation pages use. Midpoint medians are typically 10% to 17% lower than the figures shown here.