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Job types
Which types of work have the most openings, and how they pay.
Figures as of .
19.2%
Healthcare has the most openings, with 19.2% of the US job postings we could classify, followed by retail at 17.9%.
1,045,634 postings
Job types, ranked
Each job type's share of the 1,045,634 US postings we could classify, as of September 29, 2026. Another 276,369 US postings have titles we could not classify yet, so they are not ranked.
| Job type | Postings | Share | Median pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare | 200,718 | 19.2% | $83,500 |
| Retail | 186,946 | 17.9% | $42,640 |
| Sales | 80,319 | 7.7% | $120,000 |
| Food and hospitality | 57,551 | 5.5% | $40,560 |
| Skilled trades | 53,194 | 5.1% | $61,880 |
| Finance | 51,734 | 4.9% | $117,500 |
| Customer support | 40,205 | 3.8% | $56,160 |
| Operations | 40,034 | 3.8% | $122,500 |
| Warehouse and logistics | 34,905 | 3.3% | $50,960 |
| Transportation and driving | 33,012 | 3.2% | $51,480 |
| Facilities and maintenance | 28,068 | 2.7% | $42,640 |
| Manufacturing and production | 23,137 | 2.2% | $104,988 |
| Education | 22,599 | 2.2% | $52,000 |
| Marketing | 22,085 | 2.1% | $135,000 |
| Project management | 21,816 | 2.1% | $140,500 |
| Backend | 19,482 | 1.9% | $187,500 |
| Data | 16,577 | 1.6% | $141,042 |
| Administrative | 14,945 | 1.4% | $57,408 |
| Product design | 14,862 | 1.4% | $179,050 |
| Full stack | 14,374 | 1.4% | $175,500 |
| HR and recruiting | 13,189 | 1.3% | $115,000 |
| Security | 10,817 | 1.0% | $160,000 |
| IT support | 10,418 | 1.0% | $111,568 |
| Machine learning | 10,294 | 1.0% | $213,800 |
| Legal | 9,452 | 0.9% | $176,450 |
| DevOps | 8,333 | 0.8% | $177,900 |
| QA | 3,357 | 0.3% | $140,563 |
| Frontend | 1,834 | 0.2% | $170,000 |
| Mobile | 1,377 | 0.1% | $180,500 |