# New Jersey Postings Jump 72% to 186 New Roles This Week | Career App Daily

*September 12, 2026, by Ben Garves*

[New Jersey](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/new-jersey) picked up **186 new roles** in the past seven days across the employer job boards we track, up from **108** the week before. That is a 72% increase — roughly double the pace of the week as a whole.

![New Jersey vs. the national week](https://career.thegoodapps.co/posts/visuals/cea68b51-70c2-4c0f-ae77-54a3a54ec90f.png)

Nationally, across every board we crawl, new postings went from 7,440 to 9,972 week over week, a 34% rise. So New Jersey grew about twice as fast as the overall board, though off a small base: its 186 roles are 1.9% of the week's 9,972 new listings, up from 1.5% a week earlier.

## Where New Jersey sits among the 12 states

Our openings currently map to 12 states, and New Jersey is the smallest of them by new roles this week — 186 against [California](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/california) at 840 and [Texas](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/texas) at 571. Ranked by growth rate rather than volume, the picture flips: New Jersey is fourth.

![Week-over-week growth in new postings, by state](https://career.thegoodapps.co/posts/visuals/8e04f38f-9416-4194-a7f4-c2c6cd1a11db.png)

[Pennsylvania](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/pennsylvania) (98 to 261) and [Michigan](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/michigan) (94 to 229) more than doubled, and [Colorado](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/colorado) rose 73% (110 to 190). New Jersey's 72% lands just behind Colorado. At the other end, [New York](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/new-york) added only 25 roles week over week (420 to 445), a 6% gain, so the Northeast's two big markets moved in very different directions on our boards this week.

If you want the actual titles, the [New Jersey jobs page](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/new-jersey) lists what is live right now rather than what opened in the last seven days.

## The wider board

57,521 listings are open across 686 employers hiring, and while 9,972 roles opened in the last seven days, 18,780 closed. The pool is shrinking even as new-posting volume rises — closures outpaced openings by nearly two to one. Monthly, new postings are running 32,947 over the last 30 days against 24,574 in the prior 30, a 34% increase that matches the weekly rate almost exactly.

Week-over-week comparisons here exclude boards we added recently, so a newly onboarded employer cannot show up as a hiring surge. Details on how the crawl works are in [how we crawl employer boards](https://career.thegoodapps.co/bot). All counts describe the boards we track, not the New Jersey labor market.

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