Las Vegasruns on a handful of strong industries. If you’re job-hunting or weighing a move, here’s where the opportunities (and the big-name employers) are.
Top industries & employers
Gaming & resorts
MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment, Wynn Resorts, Las Vegas Sands, Boyd Gaming, Station Casinos
MGM, Caesars, Wynn and Sands are all headquartered in the metro. Leisure and hospitality is a far larger share of employment here than in any other big US metro, which is why a downturn in travel is a local recession.
Conventions & live events
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Sphere Entertainment, MSG, Live Nation, Allegiant Stadium
CES takes over the city each January and the trade-show calendar underpins mid-week hotel demand. The Sphere opened in 2023 and the Formula 1 street circuit has run each November since.
Data centres & tech infrastructure
Switch, Google, Amazon Web Services, Vantage
Cheap land, no state income tax, no earthquake risk and abundant solar have built a serious colocation cluster — Switch's Las Vegas campuses are among the largest in the world. The jobs are fewer than the square footage suggests.
Aviation & logistics
Allegiant Air, Harry Reid International Airport, Amazon, UPS
Allegiant is headquartered in Summerlin, and Harry Reid is one of the busiest airports in the US — which makes the valley an unusually good distribution point for the Southwest despite having no port and one railway.
Health care
Valley Health System, Dignity Health–St. Rose, Sunrise Hospital, UNLV Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, Roseman University
Chronically under-supplied: Nevada sits near the bottom of the national tables for physicians per head, and the two young medical schools exist specifically to fix that. Good news for jobs, less good for waiting times.
Professional sports
Vegas Golden Knights, Las Vegas Raiders, Las Vegas Aces, Athletics
The city went from no major league franchise to four inside a decade, with the Athletics' ballpark on the old Tropicana site due later this decade. The knock-on construction and hospitality demand is a real part of the local economy.
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