Original regional analysis / October 2026 edition
Buffalo and WNY jobs snapshot
Buffalo Projects found 2,416 current openings across 81 employers, each checked at one of 32 credited sources on October 29, 2026.
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current openings
81
employers
32
sources checked
29.8%
with pay in our data
Not comparable with the September 2026 edition. That edition counted 1,004 openings from 17 sources; this one counts 2,416 from 32. The two editions read different sets of sources, so differences between their figures reflect what we collected, not a change in regional hiring.
A few employers hold most of the openings
Kaleida Health and Catholic Health together posted 881 openings, 36.5% of the edition. The ten largest employers account for 73.7%. That describes the collected inventory, not all hiring in the regional economy: a large employer with its own career site is easier to check completely than many small ones.
- 01Kaleida Health53622.2%
- 02Catholic Health34514.3%
- 03M&T Bank24110.0%
- 04Moog1626.7%
- 05Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center1164.8%
- 06Integer Holdings (Greatbatch; Clarence/Alden)1084.5%
- 07Wegmans Food Markets843.5%
- 08Tops Friendly Markets763.1%
- 09KeyBank612.5%
- 10Delaware North / Patina Group512.1%
Openings by sector
Each source is assigned the sector of its employer or board.
- 01Healthcare99741.3%
- 02Finance and insurance36615.1%
- 03Manufacturing34814.4%
- 04Retail, hospitality, and food27411.3%
- 05Education1787.4%
- 06Public service1385.7%
- 07Technology923.8%
- 08Professional services130.5%
- 09Energy and utilities60.2%
- 10Media40.2%
How long listings had been up
2396 listings stated when they were posted. Of those, 454 (18.9%) were a week old or newer, 791 (33.0%) were 8 to 30 days old, and 1151 (48.0%) had been up more than 30 days when checked. A long-running listing can be a hard-to-fill role, a standing requisition, or a posting the employer has not taken down.
Published pay
721 listings (29.8%) published pay. All of them came from 7 of the 32 sources; postings from the other sources were collected without pay, so this share reflects what we collected, not how many employers state pay. Across 238 salaried ranges, the median low end was $64,129 and the median high end was $94,121 a year. Across 434 hourly ranges, the medians were $20.80 and $25.67 an hour. Pay counts only ranges the employer stated; ranges a job board estimated are left out. These describe the listings that chose to publish pay, not wages across the region.
Many details go unstated
Work arrangement was stated for 487 listings (20.2%): 213 on-site, 256 hybrid, and 18 remote. Employment type was stated for 2153 (89.1%), of which 1608 were full-time. Buffalo Projects leaves the rest unknown instead of estimating.
Where the listings came from
- 01Employer career sites193179.9%
- 02Public-sector job boards43418.0%
- 03Local job boards512.1%
Method and reuse
Published November 2, 2026. The figures are fixed to the snapshot generated October 29, 2026 and rebuilt from it on November 2, 2026; they do not change as the live index updates. Listings can change after checking, sources can fail, and this is not a complete census of regional hiring.
Reuse the figures and CSV with credit to Buffalo Projects and a link to this page. Read the jobs and events methodology or search current openings.
Every edition
A new edition is published early each month from the last snapshot of the month before. The Buffalo jobs report always shows the newest one.
- October 2026 (shown above)2,416 openings, published
- September 20261,004 openings, published
- August 2026645 openings, published