State labor market
Georgia labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Georgia. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Georgia hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Georgia.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Georgia workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
137,580estimated employmentGeneral and operations managers
111,060estimated employmentCustomer service representatives
97,850estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Georgia figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$93,550/yr Georgia median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$131,010/yr Georgia median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$58,320/yr Georgia median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$81,900/yr Georgia median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$72,290/yr Georgia median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$160,760/yr Georgia median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Georgia occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Georgia workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers$618,090/yr state median · 8,770 workers+166.3%vs. U.S. $232,140/yr
- General internal medicine physicians$425,460/yr state median · 5,440 workers+65.8%vs. U.S. $256,560/yr
- Health education specialists$99,400/yr state median · 3,210 workers+55.1%vs. U.S. $64,070/yr
- News analysts, reporters, and journalists$81,910/yr state median · 1,520 workers+31.7%vs. U.S. $62,200/yr
- Cardiologists$610,070/yr state median · 1,150 workers+23.0%vs. U.S. $496,010/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Educational instruction and library workers, all other$24,780/yr state median · 12,240 workers-51.3%vs. U.S. $50,890/yr
- Waiters and waitresses$18,700/yr state median · 76,470 workers-46.9%vs. U.S. $35,230/yr
- Anesthesiologists$230,000/yr state median · 1,040 workers-41.3%vs. U.S. $391,490/yr
- Personal care and service workers, all other$25,130/yr state median · 2,250 workers-39.6%vs. U.S. $41,600/yr
- Bartenders$22,830/yr state median · 14,600 workers-33.5%vs. U.S. $34,340/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Georgia
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Georgia. Links marked “Georgia report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Georgia report is available.
697 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.