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Atlanta

Atlanta hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in Georgia.

Postings · Sep 2026−57%3-mo momentum
2
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingOct '25 → Sep '26
0.3333 low3-mo avg · 35 high
Rank · US
#14of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+31 pts vs US
Share of US postings
0.7%2 of 372
3-Mo momentum
Falling−57% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Lagging the US baseline this cycle.

Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.

Full yearPartial yearAll-time peak
All-time postings
2,208since 2011 · 186 months
+11% YoY2025 vs 2024
133
'22
37
'23
56
'24
62
'25
29
'26
All-time total
2,208186 months
↑ Best year
2019325
↓ Worst full year
202337
Latest full year
2025+11% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Pays 4% under San Francisco for senior eng — and 7% over Chicago.

Median bands from the 27 Atlanta postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Senior eng · median · 2023–Present
USD183K
−4%vs San Francisco+7%vs Chicago
Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Senior$170k – $401k n=11
Staff+$160k – $200k n=16

Bar = p25 to p75 · tick on Senior = median.

Senior eng median · US peer cities · 2023–Present
Where Atlanta sits in the US distribution
CityMedianvs Atlanta
01
San Francisco
$190k+4.1%
02
New York
$190k+4.1%
03
Atlantayou are here
$183k—
04
Seattle
$182k−0.5%
05
Washington DC
$180k−1.4%
06
Chicago
$171k−6.2%

2023–Present disclosed pay only

§ 02Work Model

22 points more remote-friendly than the US baseline.

Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
92%
+22 ptsvs US · 69%
Remote
75%
Hybrid
17%
Onsite-only
8%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
100% rem.
'12
81% rem.
'13
81% rem.
'14
68% rem.
'15
45% rem.
'16
61% rem.
'17
41% rem.
'18
38% rem.
'19
47% rem.
'20
74% rem.
'21
90% rem.
'22
95% rem.
'23
100% rem.
'24
98% rem.
'25
93% rem.
'26
97% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Atlanta vs US
Atlanta92% remote-friendly
US average69% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

TypeScript tops Atlanta's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 36 Atlanta hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillTypeScript
28mentions↑ 56%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
OCT '2578% of postingsSEP '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01TypeScript+56%28
02Go+9%26
03iOS+69%26
04React+18%25
05Google Cloud−6%22
06JavaScript—18
07Kubernetes−36%15
08MCP (Model Context Protocol)—11
09dbt (data build tool)—11
10Rust−43%7
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Amazon Web Services (AWS)+467%
  • 02Node.js+467%
  • 03C+++278%
  • 04ECS / EKS+89%
Cooling↘
  • 01BigQuery−71%
  • 02Bigtable−71%
  • 03Objective-C−67%
  • 04gRPC−64%

100% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Sep 2026)

Role mix · Atlanta vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
AtlantaUS baseline
Data Ml
match
10%
13%
−3 pts0.8×
Design
match
2%
3%
−0 pts0.9×
Engineering
match
79%
69%
+10 pts1.1×
Executive
match
1%
2%
−1 pts0.4×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.2×
Operations
match
1%
1%
+0 pts1.1×
Other
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.2×
Product
match
4%
4%
−0 pts1.0×
Sales
match
1%
3%
−1 pts0.5×