Where skilled workers want to go in 2026
Where they come from
Active profiles by country of origin. A profile is one person who created it themselves and confirmed their email; there is no scraping and no bought data.
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | 13 | |
| 🇪🇬 Egypt | 7 | |
| 🇲🇽 Mexico | 6 | |
| 🇲🇦 Morocco | 5 | |
| 🇨🇴 Colombia | 5 | |
| 🇮🇳 India | 4 | |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | 3 | |
| 🇵🇰 Pakistan | 3 | |
| 🇫🇷 France | 3 | |
| 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | 3 | |
| 🇦🇷 Argentina | 2 | |
| 🇭🇳 Honduras | 2 | |
| 🇨🇲 Cameroon | 2 | |
| 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic | 1 | |
| 🇺🇦 Ukraine | 1 |
Where they want to work in the United States
Countries named by workers as where they would go. One person can name several, so these add up to more than the number of profiles.
| 🇺🇸 United States | 18 | |
| 🇪🇬 Egypt | 1 |
What they do
Professions grouped into trade families so that a TIG welder and a pipe welder count together.
| Construction | 11 | |
| Driver | 9 | |
| Electrician | 7 | |
| Welder | 5 | |
| Agriculture / fishing | 5 | |
| Hospitality / kitchen | 4 | |
| Mechanic | 4 | |
| IT / office | 2 | |
| Caregiver / nurse | 2 |
Sign-ups per week
| week of 07 Sept | 1 | |
| week of 14 Sept | 6 | |
| week of 21 Sept | 17 | |
| week of 28 Sept | 28 | |
| week of 05 Oct | 14 | |
| week of 12 Oct | 12 |
Method
Every number on this page is a count of active profiles in the Workmerica register at the time shown at the top. Country of origin and target countries are as the worker typed them, mapped to ISO codes; free text that could not be mapped is left out rather than guessed. Trade families are keyword groups over the profession field. The register is free for workers; employers search it and pay only to open a profile. No figure here is a projection, a survey answer or an industry estimate.
Press and researchers: quote freely with a link. For a CSV of the current counts or a comment, write to hello@workmerica.com.
The other side of the same question, who is hiring, is counted monthly from the public job registers: the demand reports.