August 2026
Final figures, data as of August 31, 2026.
About this month's data
A change to how we detect closed postings retired about 890 listings on August 10–12, and several employer sources stopped reporting for part of the month. Most of the drop in active postings from July reflects our coverage, not hiring.
Until October 12 our data included listings re-posted from job boards such as Indeed and ZipRecruiter (about 130 at a time). They're counted in this month's active postings, and the companies named in them inflate the employer count.
Because our coverage changed, this report doesn't show month-over-month changes.
Active postings
2,301
New postings
1,071
Employers hiring
72
Postings showing pay
53%
Advertised Pay
Pay figures split into hourly and salaried roles start with the October 2026 report. Earlier versions of this page showed a single “median advertised salary” that combined hourly pay (annualized) with salaried pay. Most salaried postings are Walmart corporate roles, so that figure overstated typical pay, and we've withdrawn it.
Top Hiring Employers
Hiring by Category
City Breakdown
| City | Active Postings |
|---|---|
| Bentonville | 863 |
| Fayetteville | 516 |
| Springdale | 369 |
| Rogers | 140 |
| Region-wide (no town listed) | 107 |
| Siloam Springs | 79 |
| Lowell | 77 |
| Gentry | 41 |
| NWACC | 28 |
| Benton County Campus | 26 |
| Tontitown | 21 |
| Centerton | 6 |
Charts & Data
Each chart carries its date and source. Use them in your own reporting with attribution to NWA Job Search.
How to cite
NWA Job Search, "NWA Job Market Report — August 2026," nwajobsearch.com/reports/2026-08 (data as of August 31, 2026).
Methodology, corrections and custom data requests: see press & data.
Methodology
Figures are computed from job postings collected daily from the career sites of Northwest Arkansas employers (Walmart, Tyson Foods, J.B. Hunt, hospitals, cities, school districts and dozens more). We don't include listings re-posted by job boards such as Indeed or ZipRecruiter.
Active postings, employers and pay come from the last daily snapshot of the month (2026-08-31). New postings are openings we first saw during the month, counted once each. Postings the employer had listed more than 14 days before we found them (for example, when we add a new employer) don't count as new.
Pay uses the midpoint of each advertised range. Hourly and salaried roles are reported separately, because one combined figure is dominated by whichever group is larger. Postings that don't list pay are left out of pay figures. Where one employer posts most of a group, we name it and give the median without it.
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