# Georgia Job Postings Nearly Triple Week Over Week: 178 New Roles vs 62

*September 17, 2026, by Ben Garves*

Georgia posted **178 new roles** this week across the employer job boards we track, up from **62** the week before. That's an increase of 116 postings, or 187% — the steepest week-over-week jump of any state in our top 12.

![Georgia's week on Career App](https://career.thegoodapps.co/posts/visuals/dff4099d-f7ab-4922-8737-7154b3803be8.png)

For scale: the whole week added 9,328 new postings across the boards we track, up from 7,064 the prior week, a 32% gain. Georgia grew roughly six times faster than the national week. Its share of all new postings moved from 0.9% to 1.9% in seven days.

## Georgia is still a mid-sized state on our boards

The percentage jump is the headline, but volume keeps it in perspective. [Georgia](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/georgia) ranked 10th of the 12 states with openings this week — behind [California](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/california) (610), [Texas](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/texas) (562), [Florida](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/florida) (398) and [New York](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/new-york) (382), and just behind [North Carolina](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/north-carolina) (192) and [New Jersey](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/new-jersey) (172).

![New postings this week by state](https://career.thegoodapps.co/posts/visuals/21e65a8e-3dee-4ccb-81ae-6a29e8f6e029.png)

With a base of 62 postings the prior week, a swing of a hundred-odd roles is enough to triple the count. That's worth saying plainly: this is a small pool moving fast, not a large one moving a little.

## Georgia wasn't alone, but it was the extreme

Nine of the 12 states we tracked openings in grew week over week. The gainers, by percentage change:

![Week-over-week change in new postings, by state](https://career.thegoodapps.co/posts/visuals/1fdb46c6-30e8-4999-81b8-a0686f20bbfb.png)

[North Carolina](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/north-carolina) was the next-sharpest riser at +113% (192 from 90), then Florida at +86% (398 from 214) and New Jersey at +76% (172 from 98). [Pennsylvania](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/pennsylvania) doubled its way to 200 from 117, [Ohio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/ohio) reached 200 from 137, [Massachusetts](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/massachusetts) hit 157 from 97, and [Illinois](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/illinois) went to 212 from 174.

The flat and falling side: [Michigan](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/michigan) held exactly even at 221, New York slipped to 382 from 391, and California eased to 610 from 639. The three biggest states on our boards by prior-week volume all went sideways or down while the Southeast ran.

## Who was hiring this week

Our employer counts are network-wide rather than split by state, so these are the week's largest posters across all boards we crawl — the backdrop against which Georgia's gain landed. [AdventHealth](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/adventhealth) led with 669 new postings and 992 open. [Ranger Boats](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/ranger-boats) added 527 (732 open), [Merck](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/merck) 368 (584 open), [Target](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/target) 301 (673 open) and [Tyson Foods](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/tyson-foods) 223 (613 open). Rounding out the top ten: [Lifepoint Hospitals](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/lifepoint-hospitals) (219), [Meijer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/meijer) (203), [Cleveland Clinic](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/cleveland-clinic) (199), [Marriott International](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/marriott-international) (189) and [JLL](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/jll) (178). Health systems, food production and retail did most of the week's heavy lifting.

## The longer view is flat

Zoom out a month and the surge disappears. The last 30 days produced 28,749 new postings across the boards we track, against 28,964 in the 30 days before — down 215, or 0.7%. A hot week inside a flat month usually means timing, not a new trend.

The network currently shows **57,713 open listings** from 685 employers hiring. Closings outpaced openings over the same seven days: 19,052 listings came down against 9,328 that went up. Remote roles were 5% of new postings.

If you're looking in the state, start with [jobs in Georgia](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/georgia) or the full [job search](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs). On posted pay, the deepest salaried pools network-wide this week were [Software Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/software-engineer) at a $240,092 median across 1,012 listings and [Product Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/product-manager) at $243,950 across 270 — employer-posted ranges annualized to USD, not member-reported figures.

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