Overview
- The applicant pool has an average age of 28, with roughly 20,000 submissions from outside New York.
- Hiring will span 60 agencies, 95 mayoral offices and more than 250 boards and commissions.
- City indicators show strain: youth unemployment hit 13.2% in 2024 and only about 25,000 jobs were added through September 2025.
- New York’s overall unemployment was 5.8% in August, about 1.3 percentage points above the U.S. rate.
- The volume dwarfs a typical mayoral staff of about 1,100, with applicants reporting prolonged searches such as those of David Kinchen and Aurisha Rahman.