Nurembergruns 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
Federal agencies
Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF)
Both the Federal Employment Agency and the federal migration office are headquartered in Nuremberg, making the public sector one of the city's largest and most stable employers — and giving it an unusual concentration of policy and administrative work for a city this size.
Electrical engineering & rail
Siemens, Siemens Mobility, Diehl, Alstom (Nuremberg works)
Siemens has manufactured in Nuremberg for over a century and the city builds trains, drives and industrial automation. The engineering labour market here is deep, and less exposed to a single sector than Stuttgart's.
Medical technology & research (Erlangen)
Siemens Healthineers, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
Erlangen, twenty minutes north on the S-Bahn, is one of Europe's densest medical technology clusters, anchored by Siemens Healthineers and one of Germany's largest universities.
IT, financial services & market research
DATEV, Consorsbank, TeamBank, Nürnberger Versicherung, GfK
DATEV is one of Germany's largest IT service providers, a cooperative built to run the software of the country's tax advisers — an unglamorous, very large and very stable local employer.
Consumer brands, writing instruments & toys
Playmobil (Zirndorf), Faber-Castell (Stein), Staedtler, Schwan-Stabilo, NürnbergMesse
The region makes an improbable share of the world's pencils and toys, and NürnbergMesse runs the world's largest toy fair as well as BIOFACH and embedded world.
Sporting goods & precision components (Herzogenaurach)
adidas, Puma, Schaeffler
Two of the world's three largest sportswear companies were founded by feuding brothers in the same small town twenty kilometres west, and both still have their global headquarters there alongside Schaeffler's bearings business.
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