New York Cityruns 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
Finance & asset management
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, Citadel Securities, Two Sigma
Still the deepest capital market on earth, and increasingly a quant and engineering employer — Two Sigma and Citadel compete directly with big tech on compensation.
Media, publishing & advertising
The New York Times, Condé Nast, WarnerMedia, NBCUniversal, Ogilvy
The American media industry is headquartered here in a way no other sector is so concentrated in one city, though the money has moved from print to streaming and platforms.
Technology
Google, Meta, Amazon, Bloomberg, Datadog, Ramp
Google's Hudson Square campus makes New York its largest engineering base outside California, and the local startup scene skews to fintech and enterprise rather than consumer.
Healthcare & life sciences
NewYork-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, NYU Langone, Memorial Sloan Kettering
The academic medical centres are among the city's largest employers, and the Alexandria Center and Science Park build-out is growing a real biotech cluster.
Law & professional services
Skadden, Cravath, Deloitte, McKinsey, PwC
The centre of American corporate law. Note that practising law here requires New York bar admission — foreign qualifications rarely transfer without an LLM and the bar exam.
Fashion & design
Ralph Lauren, Tapestry, PVH, Tiffany & Co.
Design and merchandising headquarters remain in the Garment District and SoHo even though manufacturing left decades ago.
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