Where America's Hiring Demand Actually Lives: 316,370 Live Job Postings Across 10 US Cities (June 2026)

The jobs report told us what. Our data shows where.

On 5 June 2026, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released The Employment Situation — May 2026. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 172,000, the unemployment rate held at 4.3 percent, and average hourly earnings rose 3.4 percent over the year. A dated write-up of the release notes the 172,000 gain came in well above the consensus forecast.

The more useful detail is which industries drove it. Per the BLS, gains were led by leisure and hospitality (+70,000), state and local government (+50,000, mostly education), and health care and social assistance (+47,200). Services, government, and health care are carrying the labor market.

Those BLS figures are national. They tell you the macro picture but not where to point your search. That distinction runs through this whole piece: the BLS numbers cover the entire country; the figures below cover ten major US cities only. Within those ten cities, we can see exactly where the demand lives — by city, by role, and by what employers expect once you show up.

The scale: more than three hundred thousand live openings

As of 17 June 2026, ResuMinder is tracking 316,370 active job postings across ten major US cities. This is current, not historical: 51,795 of those postings went live in the last 7 days, and 160,078 — just over half the catalog — in the last 30 days. The labor market the BLS describes in aggregate shows up here as individual, applyable jobs, turning over briskly rather than recycling stale listings.

The headline: nurse is the single most-advertised job title

Ranked by job title across these ten cities, health care sits at the very top — a live-data echo of the BLS report:

1. Nurse — 9,018
2. Software engineer — 8,827
3. Sales manager — 6,765
4. Project manager — 5,944
5. Teacher — 5,412
6. Product manager — 4,165
7. Senior engineer — 3,476
8. Finance analyst — 3,019
9. Data analyst — 2,971
10. Doctor — 2,557
11. Engineering manager — 2,192
12. Marketing manager — 2,145

Nurse is the single most-advertised job title in our data, narrowly ahead of software engineer — just 191 postings separate first from second. Read that carefully, because it is easy to overstate: it does not mean health care out-hires all of tech. Add up the engineering titles — software engineer, senior engineer, and engineering manager — and the total comfortably exceeds nursing. The sharper takeaway is narrower: tech demand is split across many titles, while nursing demand concentrates into one. No single job title is advertised more often than nurse.

Two more roles reinforce the pattern. Teacher ranks fifth (5,412), matching the BLS note that government gains were "mostly education." And the two clinical titles combined — nurse plus doctor — total 11,575 postings, putting frontline health care among the largest demand pools in the data.

The city leaderboard

Hiring volume is heavily top-loaded. New York alone accounts for 101,342 openings — nearly a third of the entire ten-city sample, and more than Los Angeles and San Francisco combined.

1. New York — 101,342
2. Los Angeles — 54,951
3. San Francisco — 34,860
4. Chicago — 30,243
5. Austin — 22,193
6. Atlanta — 22,126
7. Boston — 21,325
8. Miami — 17,208
9. Seattle — 16,387
10. Denver — 15,146

Austin and Atlanta are effectively tied, separated by just 67 postings — a reminder that beyond the big three coastal hubs, several mid-sized markets compete closely for talent. Denver, Seattle, and Miami each still carry well over fifteen thousand openings, leaving real room for a focused search away from the coastal giants.

Where nurses and engineers are wanted

Geography splits the two top roles almost perfectly — a practical map for deciding where to hunt.

Top cities hiring nurses:

• New York — 3,147
• Los Angeles — 1,447
• Miami — 1,124
• Atlanta — 696
• Chicago — 643

Top cities hiring software engineers:

• San Francisco — 3,134
• New York — 2,841
• Seattle — 903
• Austin — 837
• Boston — 746

The contrast is stark. San Francisco leads software-engineering demand but doesn't crack the top five for nursing; Miami is a major nursing market — eighth for total postings but third for nurses — yet is absent from the tech leaderboard. New York is the rare city that tops both lists. If you're a nurse, demand is broad and skews coastal-plus-Sun-Belt; if you're an engineer, it stays concentrated in a handful of established tech hubs. The best city for your search depends entirely on your role.

The on-site reality

Here is the part that should shape how you plan. Across these ten cities, 290,337 postings (91.8 percent) are on-site, 24,530 (7.8 percent) are remote, and just 1,503 (0.5 percent) are hybrid.

One honest caveat: this share counts only postings that name one of the ten cities, so fully-remote roles that list no city are excluded by definition — which means our roughly 92 percent figure overstates how office-bound the wider market really is. Read it as directionally consistent with the broader return-to-office shift, not as a national remote rate. Robert Half's analysis of Q1 2026 US job postings found 77 percent fully on-site, 19 percent hybrid, and 4 percent fully remote. Whether the true on-site share is nearer our city-anchored 92 percent or Robert Half's 77 percent, both data sets point the same way: in-person work is firmly back in the majority.

What it means for job seekers

• Follow the volume, but match it to your role. New York leads overall, San Francisco leads tech, and Miami over-indexes on nursing. If you live near New York, LA, or San Francisco, you're fishing in the deepest ponds.
• Lean into the strong fields. Nursing, software, sales, teaching, and project management top the board — consistent with the health-care, education, and services strength behind the BLS gains.
• Expect to commute. Remote roles exist, but they're a small minority; filter for them deliberately rather than holding out for fully remote.
• Move fast on fresh listings. With 51,795 jobs posted in the last week, applying early means less competition from a backlog of applicants — a real edge.

Methodology

Figures for live job postings are drawn from active ResuMinder listings across ten major US cities — New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, Atlanta, Boston, Miami, Seattle, and Denver — as of 17 June 2026. The sample comprises 316,370 active postings. Roles are advertised positions matched by title and location keywords, so a single opening may map to more than one keyword, and titles reflect how employers phrase their listings. All posting counts are framed "as of" the snapshot date rather than real-time, and cover these ten cities only — not the nation as a whole. National payroll, unemployment, earnings, and sector figures are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ("The Employment Situation — May 2026," released 5 June 2026); the work-arrangement comparison is from Robert Half's analysis of Q1 2026 US job postings. Both external sources are national and industry-wide; ResuMinder's figures are specific to the ten cities named above.