Academy Sports and Outdoors
Hiring · 816 open jobsGeneral information
Academy Sports + Outdoors is a retailer that sells sporting goods, outdoor equipment, athletic apparel, and fitness products. Shoppers use its stores for sports and outdoor gear across the United States. The company is based in Katy, United States, and runs 339 store locations across 21 states.
Academy started in 1938 as the Academy Tire Shop in San Antonio, Texas, founded by Max Gochman. His son Arthur later grew it into a sporting goods chain. The Gochman family owned it for 74 years until KKR bought the company in 2011. Academy went public on NASDAQ in October 2020 and joined the Fortune 500 the next year. It now has about 22,000 employees and made $6.4 billion in revenue in 2023. One family ran it as a tire shop for 74 years before it became a public company on Wall Street.
Currently, there's a total of 800 job openings at Academy Sports and Outdoors. Over the last 30 days, 131 jobs were added and 72 were removed (job postings usually stay up ~17 days before being removed).1
Hiring activity
New jobs added per week2
View these weekly figures as a table
| Week beginning | New listings |
|---|---|
| July 20, 2026 | 0 |
| July 27, 2026 | 0 |
| August 3, 2026 | 63 |
| August 10, 2026 | 20 |
| August 17, 2026 | 17 |
| August 24, 2026 | 31 |
| August 31, 2026 | 17 |
| September 7, 2026 (in progress) | 18 |
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What does Academy Sports and Outdoors actually pay? Based on previous and active job listings with specified pay ranges, the posted ranges below are hourly. Note that 98% of jobs don't list any pay information, so figures may be skewed towards cities like NYC, where pay disclosure is mandated for each posting.4
Plus 20 hourly jobs at $13 to $26 an hour.
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Common questions
Is Academy Sports and Outdoors hiring now?
Yes. There are 816 open jobs, with 83 added in the last 30 days. They close fast though, often within 21 days, so don't wait.
How much does Academy Sports and Outdoors pay?
Posted pay runs $13 to $26 an hour. We only show pay the company printed itself, never estimates.
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Notes & sources
- 1. Company description. Written by InterviewOS from Academy Sports and Outdoors's public materials and press coverage; facts are checked against the sources below.
- 2. Weekly counts. A count is the number of listings the pipeline saw for the first time in that week. Weeks begin Monday; the onboarding week is excluded from the scale and every average.
- 3. Live counts. Deduplicated live listings observed daily on Academy Sports and Outdoors's own hiring system; last check September 12, 2026. Stale and syndicated posts on aggregator sites are not counted.
- 4. Posted pay. Ranges extracted from the text of Academy Sports and Outdoors's own listings; a range appears only when the employer printed one. Extraction is still rolling out, so this table can lag the board.
Sources
academy.com, checked daily
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