Atlantaruns 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
Airlines & logistics
Delta Air Lines, UPS, Norfolk Southern, Hartsfield-Jackson
Hartsfield-Jackson is the busiest passenger airport in the world and Delta's home. Logistics is the region's structural advantage — most of the US population is within a two-hour flight.
Fintech & payments
Fiserv, Global Payments, NCR Voyix, InComm, Greenlight
'Transaction Alley' — a very large share of US card payment volume is processed by companies headquartered in metro Atlanta, a cluster that grew out of the 1970s banking technology industry.
Film & television production
Tyler Perry Studios, Trilith Studios, Marvel, Netflix, Warner Bros.
Georgia's transferable film tax credit made the state one of the largest production centres in the world. The industry is real but the credit is perennially debated in the legislature.
Corporate headquarters
Coca-Cola, Home Depot, UPS, Delta, Southern Company, Chick-fil-A
An unusual density of Fortune 500 headquarters for the city's size, which gives the white-collar job market real depth beyond any single sector.
Public health & bioscience
CDC, Emory Healthcare, CHOA, Boehringer Ingelheim
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is headquartered here, and Emory's research campus around it makes Atlanta a genuine global public health centre.
Higher education
Georgia Tech, Emory, Georgia State, Spelman, Morehouse
Georgia Tech anchors the engineering pipeline, and the Atlanta University Center is the largest consortium of historically Black colleges and universities in the world.
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