Michigan Postings Nearly Doubled This Week: 285 New Roles vs 145

Michigan picked up 285 new roles in the last seven days across the employer boards we track, up from 145 the week before. That is a gain of 140 roles and a 97% jump, the largest percentage increase among the 12 states with the most new roles on Career App right now.

It beat the national rate, and the rest of the top 12

The whole tracked network was nearly flat: 9,354 new roles against 9,133 the prior week, a 2% increase. (That comparison covers only boards we were already crawling before the comparison window, so newly onboarded employers don't read as a hiring boom.) Michigan ran far ahead of that rate.

No other state among the 12 came close. North Carolina was next at 41%. Ohio, the other Great Lakes state in the top tier, added 279 roles against 213, up 31%, and Massachusetts followed at 24%.

In raw volume Michigan sits fifth, behind California at 977, Texas at 648, New York at 501 and Florida at 424, and just ahead of Tennessee at 280 and Ohio at 279. Michigan's share of all new roles this week was 3.0%, up from 1.6% a week ago.

Who was posting

Our employer counts run network-wide rather than state by state, so the leaderboard below describes the week overall rather than Michigan alone. Two names on it are worth watching for anyone searching in the state: Meijer posted 203 new roles this week and carries 674 open, and Target posted 228 new with 679 open. Both are retail operations with wide Midwest footprints.

The week's biggest posters overall were VF Corporation (654 new, 897 open), AdventHealth (559 new, 991 open) and Ranger Boats (527 new, 732 open). U.S. Bank has the largest open pool of any employer we track at 1,010, with 298 of those posted this week. Cleveland Clinic added 320 and Tyson Foods 238.

Which job titles moved

Across the network, Software Engineer led named occupations with 60 new postings, down from 63. The sharper moves came lower down the list: Registered Nurse went from 4 to 12, Business Development Manager from 6 to 11, and Data Engineer from 2 to 11. Product Manager fell from 28 to 18, Engineering Manager slipped from 17 to 11, and Operations Manager edged down from 12 to 11.

On skills, Python topped the week at 91 new postings, followed by Microsoft Excel, SQL and Salesforce at 56 each. Inventory Management showed up in 23 — a smaller count, but the kind of requirement that travels with warehouse and retail hiring.

The wider picture is roughly even. The network holds 58,042 open listings from 686 employers, and 9,069 roles closed in the last seven days against 9,354 opened. You can follow the daily shape on US hiring trends, day by day.

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.