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New Orleans sits at the center of Louisiana's maritime economy, with the Port of New Orleans anchoring roughly one in five jobs statewide tied to the shipping and logistics sector. Energy remains a major employer too: Louisiana ranks among the world's largest LNG exporters, responsible for about 61% of all U.S. liquefied natural gas exports, much of it moving through the state's Gulf Coast infrastructure. Healthcare is a parallel pillar, led by Ochsner Health System, which employs more than 25,000 people across 40-plus hospitals and clinics statewide.

Downtown New Orleans has diversified beyond its historic energy and shipping base. Since 2006, the district has drawn more than 45 tech startups and company subsidiaries, alongside established employers like Entergy, Hancock Whitney, and LCMC Health. Louisiana's economy overall crossed two million non-farm jobs in 2025, with healthcare and manufacturing posting the strongest gains, healthcare alone adding nearly 6,000 jobs in a year. Tulane University and the City of New Orleans, with 4,000-plus municipal employees, round out the city's largest institutional employers.

A city with 24-hour port operations, hospital campuses, university housing, and a tourism economy that never fully closes creates constant, staggered demand for local trades: plumbers and electricians serving hospitality properties, HVAC contractors keeping century-old buildings livable in Gulf Coast humidity, and healthcare-adjacent services near the Ochsner and LCMC campuses.