I looked at ~226,000 public job postings across 8 big US metros. 6 things that should change how you job hunt.
I looked at the data from public job postings on employers' own career sites (their jobs pages, not the reposts on Indeed or LinkedIn) in 8 metro areas: New York, LA, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Atlanta, Boston and the SF Bay Area. About 226,000 open postings in total. A few patterns showed up in every city, and a couple of them go against what people usually assume.
|Metro|Open postings|Fully remote|Biggest single employer|What dominates|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|SF Bay Area|53,000|3.3%|Apple|Tech (41% of postings)|
|New York|46,000|4.0%|City of New York|Retail/hospitality, then a wide mix|
|Los Angeles|30,000|3.4%|Anduril|Aerospace/defense and industrial (26%)|
|Dallas-Fort Worth|27,000|3.8%|Methodist Health System|Retail/consumer (26%)|
|Chicago|19,500|4.2%|Northwestern Medicine|Healthcare (26%)|
|Houston|18,300|3.9%|Texas Children's Hospital|Industrial (28%) and energy (9%)|
|Boston|16,900|4.3%|Boston Medical Center|Healthcare (32%)|
|Atlanta|15,600|4.8%|Technical College System of Georgia|Retail/consumer and industrial|
**1. Remote is rare everywhere, including the Bay Area.**
Fully remote postings were between 3% and 5% in every single metro. The Bay Area was actually the lowest at 3.3%. If you're searching remote-only, you're looking at roughly 1 in 25 jobs. Widening to hybrid or local roles is the biggest single change most people can make to how many jobs they can apply to.
**2. In 6 of 8 cities, the biggest employer is a hospital system or a public institution.**
City of New York, Northwestern Medicine, Methodist Health, Texas Children's, the Technical College System of Georgia and Boston Medical Center were each the largest single poster in their metro. Big hospital systems and public bodies also hire for IT, finance, HR, facilities, admin and project management, so they're worth a look even if you don't see yourself as a "hospital person" or a "government person".
**3. Outside the Bay Area, tech companies are a small slice.**
Tech companies were 41% of postings in the Bay Area, but only 3% to 13% everywhere else. In Boston, New York and LA they were around 11 to 13%, in Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta about 7 to 8%, and in Houston 3%. Software developer is still one of the most common roles in most of these cities, even though tech companies make up a small share of all postings. If you're a developer or analyst only applying to "tech companies", you're likely skipping a lot of the openings in your own city.
**4. Most jobs aren't in the city everyone searches.**
In the Bay Area, about two thirds of postings are outside San Francisco itself (Santa Clara, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Mountain View). In LA it's about 60% outside the city of Los Angeles (Irvine, El Segundo, Costa Mesa, Long Beach, Torrance). In Dallas-Fort Worth over half are outside Dallas (Fort Worth, Plano, Irving, Arlington, Frisco). Boston has almost 40% outside the city (Cambridge, Waltham, Quincy). If your job alerts are set to the main city name only, you're missing a big part of your own market.
**5. Every city has its own hiring engine, so tailor your targets.**
* LA: aerospace and defense (Anduril, SpaceX, Aerospace Corp, Relativity Space, Rocket Lab), plus USC and UCLA Health
* Boston: hospitals, universities and biotech (Boston Medical Center, Harvard, Mass General Brigham, Dana-Farber, Vertex)
* Chicago: hospital systems (Northwestern, Endeavor, Advocate, Lurie Children's) plus finance (Northern Trust)
* Houston: hospitals (Texas Children's, Houston Methodist, Harris Health) and energy
* New York: city government, hospitals, ad agencies and media (Interpublic, NBCUniversal), banks
* Bay Area: chips and AI (Apple, NVIDIA, Applied Materials, OpenAI, Google)
If your background fits one of these, it's worth going straight to those employers' career pages rather than waiting for them to show up in a job board search.
**6. Almost everything is full-time.**
Between 88% and 93% of postings were full-time in every metro. Part-time was 6% to 11%, and contract work barely shows up on employer career sites at all (under 1% in every metro). If you're specifically after contract work, employer career sites don't seem to be where most of it gets advertised.
**How much to trust this**
Treat the counts as a map of where employers are advertising, not a count of people being hired. Some companies leave the same opening up for months or post one role hundreds of times, so the rankings favor big, always-recruiting employers. The data also leans toward organizations big enough to run their own careers page, which means small shops that only use Indeed or Craigslist are underrepresented. Pulling this together from thousands of different career sites isn't easy, so think of it as a best-effort snapshot rather than an official count. I also kept salary out entirely because the figures weren't reliable enough to quote.
If you only change three things after reading this: apply on the employer's own site, set your alerts to the whole metro instead of the city name, and drop the remote-only and tech-only filters unless you genuinely need them.
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2 engagementsWho's Hiring in DFW — August 20, 2026
Here's 120 listings across the Metroplex right now. Apply directly on the company sites. Full list with links:
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**TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING**
- Lead Software Engineer — AT&T (Dallas)
- Data Engineer III (Java/React/AI) — JPMorgan Chase (Plano)
- Principal Cloud Data Architect (Azure / MS Fabric) — Children's Health (Dallas)
- Design Engineer I (Recent Grad Program) — Southland Industries (Carrollton)
- Lead Software Engineer (Java/AWS/Kafka) — JPMorgan Chase (Plano)
- Data Scientist Senior Associate — JPMorgan Chase (Plano)
- Senior Solution Architect, Data & AI — TDIndustries (Dallas)
- Senior Applications Developer — Atmos Energy (Dallas)
- Vice President, Software Engineering — Goldman Sachs (Dallas)
- Senior Electrical Engineer — Abbott (Plano)
- Senior Principal Architect, Applied AI — Caterpillar (Irving)
- Principal Digital Architect, Customer Experience — McKesson (Irving)
- Lead Data Architect (Healthcare) — McKesson (Irving)
- Digital Software Engineer, Sr. Analyst (AVP) — Citi (Irving)
- Senior Data Engineer (VP) — Citi (Irving)
- Senior Software Engineer — Tyler Technologies (Plano)
- IT Sourcing Manager, SaaS & Software — JCPenney (Plano)
- VP, IT Applications & Project Management — Methodist Health System (Dallas)
- Senior Cyber Security Engineer (Generation) — Vistra (Irving)
- IT Construction Project Manager — UT Southwestern (Dallas)
**HEALTHCARE**
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Hospital Medicine — UT Southwestern (Dallas)
- Clinical Pharmacist, ICU (Days) — Children's Health (Dallas)
- Clinical Nurse Manager (Prosper) — Methodist Health System (Prosper)
- Nurse Manager, Oncology Services Clinic — Parkland Health (Dallas)
- Associate Nurse Manager, Neonatal ICU — Parkland Health (Dallas)
- Nurse Manager, Neurology & Orthopedics — Methodist Health System (Dallas)
- Complex Case Manager, Social Worker (LMSW) — UT Southwestern (Dallas)
- Inpatient Physical Therapist Team Leader — Children's Health (Dallas)
- Pediatric Dermatology Physician, Leadership Role — Cook Children's (Fort Worth)
- Assistant Director, Advanced Practice Providers (Oncology) — UT Southwestern (Dallas)
- Clinical Coordinator, Invasive Cardiovascular Tech — Collin College (Frisco)
- Pharmacist — Walgreens (Waxahachie)
- Clinical Ambulatory Pharmacist — Cook Children's (Prosper)
- Clinical Coordinator, Radiologic Technology — Collin College (Frisco)
- Director of Nursing — United Surgical Partners (Dallas)
- RN Director of Nursing (Long-Term Care) — Creative Solutions in Healthcare (Fort Worth)
- Hospice Medical Director, Team Physician — AccentCare (McKinney)
- Senior Director of Clinical Services (BCBA) — Behavioral Innovations (Dallas)
- Director, Physician Researcher — Verily (Dallas)
- Operating Room Nurse Manager — United Surgical Partners (Fort Worth)
**FINANCE & ACCOUNTING**
- Internal Audit Analyst, 2027 Full-Time Program — Citi (Irving)
- VP, Director of Treasury — First Command Financial Services (Fort Worth)
- VP, Treasury Management Officer (Mid-Corporate) — JPMorgan Chase (Plano)
- VP, Treasury Management Officer (Emerging Middle Market) — JPMorgan Chase (Plano)
- Manager, FP&A — TDIndustries (Dallas)
- Internal Audit Senior Analyst, Controllers & Tax — Goldman Sachs (Dallas)
- VP, Fund Accounting (AWM Controllers) — Goldman Sachs (Dallas)
- Finance Manager — Southland Industries (Carrollton)
- Senior Grant Accountant — Southern Methodist University (Dallas)
- Senior Financial Analyst, Strategic Finance — McKesson (Irving)
- Senior Credit Analyst — McKesson (Irving)
- Senior Financial Analyst — Tyler Technologies (Plano)
- Director FP&A — Tyler Technologies (Plano)
- Senior Passenger Tax Analyst — Southwest Airlines (Dallas)
- Indirect Tax Manager — Samsung (Plano)
- Senior Financial Analyst — UT Southwestern (Dallas)
- Senior Financial Analyst, Capital Planning — UT Southwestern (Dallas)
- Manager, Internal Audit — Michaels (Irving)
- Director, SOX & Internal Audit — Sabre Corporation (Fort Worth)
- Senior Manager, Alternative Investment Analyst — Charles Schwab (Southlake)
**HR & TALENT**
- Senior Benefits Analyst — Keurig Dr Pepper (Frisco)
- Senior Corporate Payroll Manager — McKesson (Irving)
- Senior HR Business Partner — Caterpillar (Irving)
- Talent Acquisition Manager — Caterpillar (Irving)
- Senior Manager, HR Business Partner — Capital One (Plano)
- HR Manager, Strategic Initiatives — JCPenney (Dallas)
- Director, Employee Relations — Vizient (Irving)
- Manager, Human Resources — Michaels (Irving)
- Lead HR Business Partner — AT&T (Dallas)
- Manager, Employee Relations — Cook Children's (Fort Worth)
- Manager, Talent Acquisition — Cook Children's (Fort Worth)
- Director, Human Resources — Methodist Health System (Richardson)
- Senior Human Resources Specialist — Fluor (Fort Worth)
- Senior Director, Talent Acquisition — Samsung (Plano)
- Manager, HR Business Partner — Samsung (Plano)
- Benefits Manager — Southern Methodist University (Dallas)
- Early Careers Campus Recruiter — JPMorgan Chase (Plano)
- HR Business Partner — Interstate Batteries (Dallas)
- Payroll Analyst — Northrop Grumman (Irving)
- Technical Recruiter — TDIndustries (Dallas)
**LEGAL & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES**
- Corporate Counsel — JCPenney (Plano)
- Associate General Counsel — Parkland Health (Dallas)
- VP, Assistant General Counsel (Wholesale Litigation) — JPMorgan Chase (Plano)
- VP, Assistant General Counsel (Marketing) — JPMorgan Chase (Plano)
- VP, Lending Finance Attorney — Goldman Sachs (Dallas)
- Senior Counsel — JCPenney (Plano)
- Director, Litigation & Corporate Counsel — Ryan (Plano)
- Senior Legal Counsel, Marketing — Samsung (Plano)
- Director, Senior Legal Counsel (Commercial) — Samsung (Plano)
- VP, Associate General Counsel (Corporate) — Sabre Corporation (Fort Worth)
- Director Legal Counsel, Commercial Transactions — Charles Schwab (Westlake)
- Director, Privacy — Children's Health (Dallas)
- Lead Attorney LegalEdge — AT&T (Dallas)
- Senior IT Compliance Analyst — Vizient (Irving)
- Senior Corporate Counsel, Finance & Treasury — Caterpillar (Irving)
- Lead Counsel, Digital Marketing & Ad Tech — McKesson (Irving)
- Director, Employment and Benefits Counsel — Charles Schwab (Westlake)
- Research Regulatory Compliance Manager — Methodist Health System (Dallas)
- Senior Patient Safety Risk Manager — Parkland Health (Dallas)
- Senior Counsel, Medical Risk Management — UT Southwestern (Dallas)
**MANAGEMENT & OPERATIONS**
- Lead Project Manager (Hybrid) — AT&T (Dallas)
- Program Manager, Flight Operations (SMS) — Envoy Air (Irving)
- VP, Program Manager (Chase Travel PMO) — JPMorgan Chase (Plano)
- Lead Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure — JPMorgan Chase (Plano)
- SaaS Product Manager — TDIndustries (Dallas)
- Customer Services Policy & Strategy Manager — Envoy Air (Irving)
- Senior Business Analyst, Enterprise Applications — Collin College (Plano)
- Program Manager, Enterprise Trade Compliance — Caterpillar (Irving)
- Assistant Director, Tsai Institute — Southern Methodist University (Dallas)
- Senior Marketing Manager — McKesson (Irving)
- Senior SAP Vistex Business Analyst — McKesson (Irving)
- VP, Virtual Accounts Product Manager — Citi (Irving)
- VP, Applied AI Product Owner / Lead Business Analyst — Citi (Irving)
- Project Manager — Tyler Technologies (Plano)
- Executive Program Manager — Tyler Technologies (Plano)
- Email Strategy Manager — JCPenney (Dallas)
- Product Marketing Manager — Samsung (Plano)
- Senior Product Marketing Manager — Samsung (Plano)
- Program Manager, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery — UT Southwestern (Dallas)
- Project Manager, HR — Cook Children's (Fort Worth)
If you're hiring in DFW and want your positions included, drop in comments.
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