# Which American cities have the most open jobs? *Figures as of 5 October 2026 · counted from employers' own job boards · https://avagama.co/openings/blog/us-cities-hiring-most/* **Short answer:** New York leads with 4,279 live roles, then San Francisco with 3,150 and Chicago with 2,710. The spread across American cities is far flatter than the Indian one, where Bengaluru holds more roles than the next three cities together. ## The list Live roles open to the United States, by the city named on the posting. | City | Live roles | | --- | ---: | | New York | 4,279 | | San Francisco | 3,150 | | Chicago | 2,710 | | Austin | 1,899 | | Boston | 1,786 | | Miami | 1,782 | | Los Angeles | 1,741 | | Houston | 1,504 | Two entries have been removed from this table: 2,495 roles whose location reads only "United States" and 1,801 reading "USA". Those are roles with no city given, and ranking them as though they were a place would be nonsense. They are a reminder that a sixth of American postings do not say where the work is. ## The flat distribution is the finding New York has about a third more roles than Chicago. In India, Bengaluru has about three times Delhi NCR. That difference changes how you should search. An Indian engineer who is open to relocating has essentially one answer, and it is Bengaluru. An American one has eight or nine cities that are all plausibly worth a look, and picking by job count alone is close to arbitrary once you are past the top three. It also means national searches behave differently. In India a national search is dominated by one city whether you wanted that or not. In the United States a national search genuinely spreads. ## Miami is the one to look at twice Miami at 1,782 sits above Los Angeles. Ten years ago that would have read as an error. We are not going to build a story about it from one week of job counts, and neither should anyone else. It is the sort of number that is worth watching across several months before anyone calls it a trend, which is why we date every figure we publish and keep the old ones up rather than quietly restating them. ## What this does not tell you A city count is a count of where adverts say the work is. Remote roles attach to whichever office the employer listed, so a company headquartered in New York with distributed staff inflates New York. Metropolitan areas are also not normalised. Our Indian figures group Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad as Delhi NCR because candidates treat them as one market. We have not done the equivalent for the Bay Area or the New York metro, so San Francisco here does not include Palo Alto, Mountain View or San Jose. Grouping them would move San Francisco above New York. That is a judgement we have not made yet rather than an oversight, and it is the single biggest caveat on this table. ## Method The city is taken from the location each employer publishes, with the first component used where a board publishes a full address. Roles whose location names only a country are excluded from the ranking. Counted on 5 October 2026 across live roles open to the United States. Each posting was last re-read from its board on or before 29 September 2026. ## Common questions ### Which US city has the most job openings? New York, with 4,279 live roles in our index, followed by San Francisco at 3,150 and Chicago at 2,710. ### Does San Francisco include Silicon Valley? Not in this table. Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Jose and the rest are counted separately, so the Bay Area as a whole is larger than the San Francisco row suggests and would rank above New York if grouped. ### Why do some jobs show no city? Because the employer published only a country. Around 4,300 American roles in our index list "United States" or "USA" with no city, which is roughly one in sixty of the total.