Jobs in the Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA area: pay, hiring and remote work
The Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA metro area has 259 open job postings from 64 employers in our data. 16% list a pay range, the median posted pay is $76,500 a year, 0.8% are remote and 49.4% have been open more than 60 days (data as of October 2026).
What stands out
A $76,500 posted salary in the Harrisburg area buys about what $77,500 buys in the average US metro area, because prices here run 1% below the national average.
49.4% of open postings have been listed for more than 60 days (median 56 days), the highest of 99 metro areas.
0.8% of postings are remote, 88th highest of 99 metro areas.
After adjusting for local prices, the typical worker's official median wage ($49,500) is worth $50,500 in average-US dollars, 65th of 99 metro areas.
16% of open job postings list a pay range, 69th of 99 metro areas.
Harrisburg compared with similar-sized metro areas: the median wage divided by the local price level (US average prices = 100). Download this chart (SVG)
259open postings from 64 employers
16%list a pay range
$76,500median posted pay (middle half: $57,500 to $125,500)
0.8%remote
3.7%unemployment rate, 2026-08 (BLS)
$49,500official median wage for all jobs, May 2025 (BLS)
11.6%entry-level postings
The metro area's unemployment rate was 3.7% in 2026-08 (4.9% a year earlier) (BLS, not seasonally adjusted). Across Pennsylvania, employers had 235,000 job openings in 2025-12, an openings rate of 3.7% (BLS JOLTS). Indeed's own measure of job postings in the metro area is 0.5% below its February 2020 level and 0.6% lower than a year ago (Indeed Hiring Lab, 2026-10-02).
City by city inside the metro area
Place
Postings
Employers
Pay listed
Median posted pay
Harrisburg, PA
103
43
18.1%
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Mechanicsburg, PA
48
7
n/a
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Camp Hill, PA
30
7
n/a
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Carlisle, PA
29
10
34.5%
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Middletown, PA
28
7
n/a
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Places with at least 15 postings from 3 employers. Shading shows where median posted pay is higher. Pay figures need 8 postings with pay.
Who is hiring, by industry
Industry
Postings
Healthcare & Life Sciences
70
Manufacturing & Industrial
45
Government & Nonprofit
41
Education
30
Retail & E-commerce
24
Employers with the most openings
Careers Ucpcentralpa: 36 postings
AsburyCommunities: 20 postings
New Story Schools PA: 15 postings
New Story Schools Pa: 15 postings
Trane Technologies: 15 postings
Federal government hiring
63 federal job announcements open to the public list Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA, with a median posted salary range midpoint of $112,500. Agencies hiring most: Federal Aviation Administration (17), Naval Supply Systems Command (10), Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (6), Defense Logistics Agency (6), Air National Guard Units (5). Source: USAJOBS, 2026-10-10.
What your paycheck buys here
Prices in the Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA area run 1% below the national average, and housing runs 4% below it. The official median wage for all jobs is $49,500, which is worth $50,500 in average-US dollars. The median posted pay of $76,500 is worth $77,500.
Local prices compared with the national average, where 100 is the US average. Download this chart (SVG)Median wages for the ten occupations with the most workers here (worker count in parentheses). Download this chart (SVG)Which industries have the most open postings in our data. Download this chart (SVG)
A posting that lists several places counts once in the metro. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's 2023 definitions. This covers employers whose career pages we read, not every job in the area. Methodology · All metro areas (CSV)
