The local work report
Work in Georgia
29,573
Live openings our index could see in Georgia.
Counted exactly, against live rows, . Not a projection and not an annual average. A posting counts if its source still listed it at the most recent crawl.
4,221
14.3% of openings in Georgia
read as entry level, on our reading of the posting text.
That label is ours, not the employer’s. We read it from the posting, and it is not perfect: in a 3,000-row sample, 0.6% of postings we call entry level carry a senior-sounding word in the title, and some of those are fine (“Shift Supervisor Trainee” really is a trainee role). Treat it as a good guide, not a guarantee.
The other 25,352 openings in Georgia read as expecting experience a student does not have yet, which is a fact about the route rather than about them.
Which fields are hiring
Ranked by live openings. Shares are of the 28,252 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
5,28318.7%
Retail
2,7569.8%
Transportation and driving
2,5158.9%
Skilled trades
2,4878.8%
Technology and software
2,0797.4%
Sales and marketing
1,9106.8%
Customer service
1,8456.5%
Food service
1,7886.3%
Manufacturing
1,2854.5%
Warehouse and logistics
1,2524.4%
Childcare and education
1,2074.3%
Finance and accounting
1,1003.9%
Office and administration
9223.3%
Hospitality
5091.8%
Business and operations
4901.7%
Beauty and wellness
2170.8%
General labor
2010.7%
Security and safety
1740.6%
Creative and media
1080.4%
Engineering
610.2%
Community and social services
300.1%
Agriculture and natural resources
160.1%
Science and research
130.0%
Legal
40.0%
A further 1,321 live openings in Georgia carry no field in our index. They are real postings we have not classified, and they are excluded from the shares above rather than distributed into them.
Where the work is
The 11 places in Georgia with the most live openings. For most students the honest answer to “can I do this without moving?” is on this list.
Place names are exactly as the employer wrote them and are not normalized, so one city can appear under several labels and a big metro can be split across them. Treat a row as a floor for that place, not as its total.
Atlanta
6,263
Alpharetta
840
Augusta
610
Savannah
579
Marietta
572
Northlake
514
Lawrenceville
371
Athens
301
Decatur
285
Duluth
279
Kennesaw
273
How much experience these postings ask for
Our reading of the posting text, not a field the employer filled in. Every live posting gets one of these three, so unlike the field breakdown above there is no “did not state” residue here — which is itself the sign that the label is inferred rather than reported.
- 4,221
- Reads as entry level
- 18,925
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 6,427
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Georgia at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Georgia labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Georgia is thinner than our coverage of most states. We hold 28 indexed openings per 10,000 residents here, against a median of 47 across the states we can read. That is a fact about our index, not about Georgia’s economy, and the two are easy to confuse. Across all 52 the ratio between the best and worst covered is more than twentyfold, so comparing one state’s total against another’s tells you more about us than about them.
It is a floor, not a total. Nationally the index held 1,537,993 live US openings, of which 1,308,341 carry a state and 229,652 do not. Those unplaced postings are real work that we cannot put on a map, so every state figure on this page understates what exists.
Some of these postings will already be filled. Employers do not reliably take listings down, so a live posting means “still listed by its source”, not “confirmed open”. Anybody who tells a student otherwise is selling them something.