California Opened 798 Roles This Week, Up 30% — But 10 of 12 States Grew Faster | Career App Daily

California posted 798 new roles in the last seven days across the employer job boards we track, up from 613 the week before — a gain of 185 postings, or 30.2%. That is the biggest raw number of any state in our data, and it is also one of the weakest percentage moves on the board.

Luckily, the national numbers had a stronger week. Across every board we track, 10,338 roles opened in the last seven days against 7,182 the prior week, a 43.9% increase. California grew at roughly two-thirds that pace. Of the 12 states with openings in this cut, only Tennessee (232 vs 230, +0.9%) moved less.

California is still the volume leader

Jobs in California accounted for 798 of the 4,030 new roles that carry a state in our data this week — 19.8%. A week earlier it was 613 of 2,536, or 24.2%. So California's absolute count went up while its share of the state-tagged flow went down by about four and a half points.

The 12 states below cover 4,030 of the 10,338 roles that opened this week.

Texas is second at 563 (from 355), and New York third at 475 (from 297). Both grew close to 59%.

Where the acceleration actually happened

The fast movers this week were mid-sized states, not the big three. Pennsylvania went from 101 new roles to 261 — a 158% jump off a small base. New Jersey went 98 to 213, Colorado 95 to 194, and Michigan 114 to 219. Each of those roughly doubled or better. When bases are this small, a single employer opening a batch of requisitions can move the whole line, so treat the percentages as directional.

Context from the wider board

The site currently shows 57,599 open listings from 685 employers. In the last seven days, 10,338 roles opened and 20,412 closed — closures ran at about twice the pace of new postings, which is why a strong week-over-week gain in new roles does not necessarily mean a bigger board. Remote made up 4% of new postings.

The 30-day view is milder than the weekly one: 31,248 new roles in the last 30 days against 26,351 in the 30 before that, up 18.6%. The week-over-week comparison counts only boards we were already tracking before the comparison window opened, so newly onboarded employers do not read as a hiring surge.

For posted pay, the deepest pool across all boards is Software Engineer at a $240,000 median annual figure over 1,062 listings, from employer-posted ranges annualized to USD. Those are national across the boards we track, not California-specific.