# North Carolina Job Postings Nearly Tripled This Week: 230 New Roles vs 80

*September 22, 2026, by Ben Garves*

North Carolina picked up **230 new postings** in the last seven days across the employer job boards we track, against **80** the week before. That is a 187% jump — the steepest week-over-week gain of any of the twelve states with openings in our index, and more than three times the national pace.

![North Carolina's week, in four numbers](https://career.thegoodapps.co/posts/visuals/77d88255-004a-4bdd-875d-4c4705386cac.png)

For scale, [North Carolina](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/north-carolina) still ranks seventh by raw volume this week, behind [California](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/california) (945), [Texas](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/texas) (592), [Florida](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/florida) (431), [New York](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/new-york) (419), [Tennessee](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/tennessee) (263) and [Ohio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/ohio) (262). What separates it is the direction and the size of the move: no other state on the list came close to tripling.

## Against a strong national week

The whole board moved up. Across everything we crawl, **10,761 roles opened in the past seven days** against 6,833 the prior week, a 57% increase. Those figures cover only boards we were already tracking before the comparison window, so a newly onboarded employer can't masquerade as a hiring boom.

So North Carolina's gain is not happening in isolation — but it is running roughly three times hotter than the national week. Florida (+114%) and [Massachusetts](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/massachusetts) (+110%) were the only other states to double. At the other end, [Illinois](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/illinois) added 182 against 169, essentially flat, and [Pennsylvania](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/pennsylvania) moved 159 to 190.

![Week-over-week change in new postings, by state](https://career.thegoodapps.co/posts/visuals/e4031b5f-7a2a-4d6e-99a0-a1f02923637c.png)

One note of caution on the longer arc: the 30-day picture is softer than the weekly one. We logged 28,236 new roles in the last 30 days versus 30,135 in the 30 before that. And 20,628 listings closed in the past seven days against the 10,761 that opened, so the overall pool is shrinking even in a week when new postings surged. Total open listings stand at 58,371 from 686 employers hiring.

## The employers doing the posting

Employer counts in this week's data are site-wide rather than split by state, but the names at the top say a lot about what kind of hiring is driving the week. [VF Corporation](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/vf-corporation) led with **654 new roles** and 897 open in total — the largest single-employer push of the week, and one with deep North Carolina roots. Behind it:

- [AdventHealth](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/adventhealth) — 559 new, 991 open
- [Cleveland Clinic](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/cleveland-clinic) — 320 new, 885 open
- [Citigroup](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/citigroup) — 313 new, 472 open
- [U.S. Bank](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/u-s-bank) — 298 new, 1,010 open
- [Tyson Foods](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/tyson-foods) — 238 new, 606 open
- [Target](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/target) — 228 new, 679 open
- [Lifepoint Hospitals](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/lifepoint-hospitals) — 216 new, 361 open
- [JLL](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/jll) — 211 new, 373 open
- [Stryker Corporation](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/stryker-corporation) — 196 new, 759 open

That list is retail, apparel, hospital systems, banking, food production and commercial real estate — not tech. The white-collar tech titles we track by occupation actually shrank this week: [Software Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/software-engineer) postings fell to 19 from 48, and [Product Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/product-manager) to 11 from 16. Remote roles made up just **3%** of everything posted in the last seven days.

## Skills attached to the week's postings

[Python](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/python) topped the skill tags with 29 new listings, followed by [Salesforce](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/salesforce) at 21, [Microsoft Excel](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/microsoft-excel) at 20 and [SQL](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/sql) at 18. These are small counts against a 10,761-role week — only a fraction of postings carry parsed skill tags — so read them as a rough ranking, not a census.

If you're searching in the state, the [North Carolina jobs page](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/north-carolina) carries the current listings, and [daily US hiring trends](https://career.thegoodapps.co/trends) tracks whether this week's spike holds.

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