DeUnemployment is an index of job postings that employers and their hiring systems publish in public — 7,415,865 of them indexed as of September 20, 2026. We build the index, and then try to make sense of the numbers in it: how long ads stay up, how often pay is stated, who is really hiring, and where the data stops saying anything at all. This blog is where those measurements get written down, usually the week they are made. It is not opinion about the labour market — every figure traces back to the crawl that produced it, and where a number is a model estimate rather than something an employer stated, we say so.
Every number below comes from that crawl of public job postings — the same data behind State of Jobs, the data library and data health. Feed: RSS.
Pay, ghosts, platform behaviour, remote work, visas, skills and inflated titles — measured over 7.4M postings, method and limits stated plainly.
Read this →Half the ads older than three months were still live in the source the last time our crawler looked. How we can tell, and what the number does not say.
Read this →On 6 of 35 measured sources no posting carries a date at all, and on others the reported date lands on the day we crawled it. Both break the same number.
Read this →Reporters, researchers and regulators on ghost ads and pay silence, set beside 7.4 million indexed postings: listing age, re-crawl presence, pay disclosure.
Read this →Postings with a salary sit for a median of 22 days, those without for 27. A five-day gap is small, steady, and about as much as a crawler can honestly claim.
Read this →We read 6.6 million job ads and counted how many state a pay figure: 12.4%. In Germany 0.47%, in the UK 24.36%. Same internet, very different habits.
Read this →One posting in a thousand carries a title that outranks the work — a hype word, a ceremonial office, or a rank bolted onto a junior role. We counted.
Read this →Median listing age runs from 12 days on Workday to 101 on Lever. What a company posts with predicts how long an ad stays up better than what it is hiring for.
Read this →Only 5.2% say remote, hybrid or onsite; of those, 60% are remote. Agency ads, visa sponsorship, seniority and AI skills, measured on the whole corpus.
Read this →Want the numbers without the reading? The dataset is public: JSON · CSV · every measure we publish.
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