DeUnemployment

State of Jobs — October 2026

Key figures

Job postings indexed	6,820,302
Live with full descriptions	6,820,302
Measured in this edition	every crawled record
State a salary	11.5%
Remote-friendly	3.3%
Median listing age	41 days
Still listed after 30 / 60 / 90 days	62.1% / 41.4% / 35.8%
Countries with openings	82
Machine-readable copy	JSON · CSV
Every figure, with its sample	key figures

How old are the listings?

Median open posting is 41 days old, measured across 6,897,072 postings with a publish date.

Still listed after 30 days	62.1%
Still listed after 60 days	41.4%
Still listed after 90 days	35.8%

These are listing ages from the publication date the source platform reports — not a confirmation that the role is still open. A long-listed posting is the classic ghost-job signal; we measure listing age here, publish how much of the market is 90+ days old and still being served, and verify liveness separately (see the data-health report).

Pay transparency by country

How many postings state what they pay, and how many stay open past 60 days.

Country	postings	states pay	>60d	remote
US	3,993,133	14.5%	38.8%	2.9%
GB	361,857	23.4%	20.8%	2.6%
CA	192,654	16.3%	26.0%	4.9%
DE	191,537	0.5%	28.1%	2.0%
IN	161,449	0.7%	48.7%	2.5%
FR	103,100	0.6%	39.3%	0.6%
ID	57,193	0.0%	5.9%	0.5%
SG	35,207	1.2%	47.3%	1.2%
AU	34,320	5.6%	36.0%	2.7%
CH	32,973	0.5%	24.3%	1.7%
NL	27,341	0.9%	48.8%	1.5%
BR	21,962	0.6%	55.9%	6.5%
IE	21,837	3.5%	62.6%	2.6%
ES	20,682	1.1%	35.4%	6.2%
AE	19,734	2.2%	42.5%	1.2%
MX	18,499	1.4%	26.9%	7.6%
AT	18,483	0.6%	20.4%	2.5%
CN	16,830	0.8%	37.4%	2.0%
PL	16,784	1.1%	37.3%	6.2%
ZA	16,330	0.8%	22.8%	5.2%
NG	16,022	0.8%	76.1%	2.5%
PH	16,004	2.6%	49.2%	7.7%
MY	15,425	0.1%	29.8%	2.1%
IT	14,792	3.9%	50.7%	2.5%
JP	14,393	0.3%	36.6%	2.2%

Who hides pay — by job family

Share of postings that state a pay figure, per job family (title keywords).

Job family	postings	states pay	>60d
manager	888,178	9.1%	41.3%
engineer	847,422	5.5%	38.4%
nurse	576,622	20.4%	31.2%
sales	567,163	12.4%	38.7%
admin	556,951	14.0%	36.1%
driver	263,751	41.8%	34.8%
technician	249,417	20.2%	28.7%
food	183,584	18.1%	38.5%
education	111,528	18.2%	38.2%
finance	81,510	6.9%	34.6%

Which platforms post what

Postings per hiring platform, with pay disclosure and how stale they get.

Platform	postings	states pay	>60d
unidentified / direct site	4,829,356	12.2%	44.3%
workday	839,115	10.9%	0.0%
phenom	310,989	9.2%	33.3%
smartrecruiters	212,857	6.3%	41.6%
greenhouse	159,352	9.8%	50.6%
paycom	124,224	10.0%	53.8%
paylocity	110,920	13.0%	28.2%
oraclecloud	110,546	5.5%	21.0%
ukg	101,903	21.6%	33.7%
jibe	101,453	7.5%	50.4%
workable	77,537	12.7%	61.8%
dayforce	70,373	18.2%	32.7%

Stated salaries (USD, annualized)

653,545 US postings state a yearly figure; 420,711 quote an hourly rate and 376,485 an annual salary.

annual range	postings
$0-20000	16,232
$20000-40000	145,362
$40000-60000	168,624
$60000-80000	107,730
$80000-100000	74,687
$100000-150000	73,715
$150000-200000	18,807
$200000-300000	20,179
$300000+	28,209

How we measure

This edition measures every posting in the index instead of sampling: every crawled record was de-duplicated (101,740 duplicate records dropped) and all of them measured. 6,897,072 postings carry an employer publish date (528,998 do not), 535,557 companies and 217,015 cities appear in the index.

Remote, hybrid or on-site?

5.9% of postings say which arrangement they are. Of those that say: 55.5% fully remote, 36.7% hybrid, 7.8% on-site. The rest do not state it either way — a silence, not a preference.

Arrangement	share of postings that state one
Fully remote	55.5%
Hybrid	36.7%
On-site	7.8%
Stated an arrangement	5.9%
Remote (of all postings)	3.3%

Does remote pay more or less?

Mean stated annual pay (US-dollar postings that state a figure) for fully remote postings vs every other posting. Stated pay only — not a modelled estimate.

Group	mean stated annual pay (USD)	postings with a USD figure
Fully remote	$105,894	20,325
Hybrid / on-site / unstated	$96,033	633,138
Remote vs the rest	10.3%

How useful is a stated pay range?

6.4% of postings state an actual minimum and maximum. 12.1% of those ranges are wider than $50,000 — a range that wide tells a candidate almost nothing. A further 5.8% talk about pay without ever stating a figure (“competitive salary”, “DOE”).

Relative width of the stated range	share of stated ranges
Under 10%	16.1%
10–25%	30.6%
25–50%	25.3%
50–100%	20.2%
Over 100%	7.8%

Posted by an employer or a recruiter?

5.9% of postings come from a staffing agency or recruiting firm (matched on the company name and the platform), not a direct employer. They state pay 20.3% of the time.

Source	share of postings
Staffing agency / recruiter	5.9%
Agency postings that state pay	20.3%

Visa sponsorship and work authorisation

Share of postings that explicitly offer sponsorship, and share that demand an existing right to work or citizenship. Keyword-based; most postings say nothing either way.

Signal	share of postings
Offers visa sponsorship	0.9%
Requires existing work authorisation	0.4%

Compliance wording (EEO and pay-transparency law)

Share of postings carrying equal-opportunity boilerplate, and share using the pay-transparency phrasing that US state laws and the EU directive require (“pay range”, “compensation range”).

Wording	share of postings
Equal-opportunity / EEO	1.5%
Pay-transparency / pay-range phrasing	2.5%

Which postings mention AI?

2.2% of postings mention AI or a related technology (LLM, ChatGPT, Copilot, machine learning, prompt engineering…).

The same job on several boards

7.7% of postings repeat a job we already saw under the same employer, title and place from a different platform — the same vacancy listed more than once. Duplicates across boards are indexed once per listing here, so the market is smaller than the count suggests.

Measure	value
Same role + employer + place on another board	7.7%

Seniority and entry-level share

Seniority from the job title (senior/lead/principal/director vs junior/intern/entry). 12.9% of postings state a years-of-experience requirement; of those, 20.6% ask for one year or less.

Measure	share of postings
Senior-titled	12.3%
Mid / unspecified title	77.9%
Junior-titled	9.8%
States a years requirement	12.9%
Entry-level (≤1 year) of all postings	2.7%
Mentions a degree or certification	18.2%

Do job titles oversell the job?

0.1% of postings — roughly one in a thousand — carry a title that outranks the work: a hype word, a ceremonial office title, or a rank bolted onto a plainly junior role. The matching is deliberately narrow, so read this as a floor, not an estimate. Most common: “guru” (hype word) — 1,431, “lead” on a junior role — 1,147, “senior” on a junior role — 525.

Title shape	share of postings
Any inflated title	0.1%
Hype word (ninja, guru, rockstar…)	0.0%
Ceremonial office title	0.0%
Rank on a junior role	0.0%

How much of the market is not in English?

21.4% of postings are not written in English. Detected from the script, common non-English job-ad words and accented text — a coarse heuristic, not a language model, and it is reported as such.

Language	share of postings
English	78.6%
Non-English (heuristic)	21.4%

How concentrated is hiring?

The largest employers post a disproportionate share of everything we index. HHI is the standard concentration index (10,000 = one employer posts everything).

Measure	value
Employers in the index	535,557
Share posted by the top 20 employers	4.6%
Concentration (HHI)	2.7

Most requested skills

Curated skill keywords most often named in titles and descriptions.

What's hiring right now — most common job-title terms

Top hiring companies

Company	postings	states pay	>60d
Western Express	31,184	100.0%	100.0%
Dominos	23,783	12.1%	17.1%
Time Experts Gmbh - Dortmund	13,951	0.0%	7.5%
Walmart	11,722	96.4%	2.9%
Marriott International	11,632	0.8%	13.2%
Aecom	10,813	0.3%	40.7%
Nan	10,707	5.8%	100.0%
Uber	10,633	0.3%	2.2%
Jpmorganchase	10,175	0.1%	36.0%
Postal Jobs Source (A Division Of Labor Services)	9,989	100.0%	0.0%
Babki	9,890	52.7%	82.6%
Groupementmousquetaires	9,849	0.0%	75.8%
Medipersonal - Eine Marke Von Ipersonal	9,036	0.0%	0.0%
Towntasks	8,952	16.2%	16.1%
Albertsons Companies	8,022	0.1%	11.7%
Confidential	7,482	5.1%	40.7%
Energy Jobline Zr	7,375	16.7%	8.2%
Bluemercury	6,937	0.0%	9.5%
Rewe Markt	6,924	0.0%	29.2%
Internal Postings	6,580	0.1%	95.8%
Pwc	6,560	0.3%	5.3%
Private Advertiser	6,439	0.1%	10.1%
Accorhotel	6,379	2.7%	16.9%
Sevita	6,302	48.6%	28.3%
Good Samaritan	6,067	25.1%	0.1%

Where the jobs are — top countries

Top cities

London	74,635
Berlin	45,664
San Francisco	38,584
Chicago	38,225
Gb	37,759
Los Angeles	34,158
Bengaluru	33,649
Houston	32,949
Austin	31,467
Atlanta	31,025
Ch	30,051
Boston	26,838
Dallas	26,773
Bangalore	23,234
Hamburg	22,536
Delhi	22,446
Fr	21,488
Not Specified	21,286
Zürich	19,914
Maharashtra	19,839
Charlotte	19,784
Karnataka	19,761
Toronto	19,485
Mumbai	19,175
Denver	19,067

Top sources (hiring platforms)

dark	4,829,356
workday	839,115
phenom	310,989
smartrecruiters	212,857
greenhouse	159,352
paycom	124,224
paylocity	110,920
oraclecloud	110,546
ukg	101,903
jibe	101,453
workable	77,537
dayforce	70,373

Methodology: this edition is a full-corpus pass, not a sample — every crawled record was de-duplicated (101,740 duplicate records dropped), and all of them were measured. Salary coverage counts postings whose own text states a pay figure (regex extraction, model-independent). Listing age uses the employer publish stamp, country and role breakdowns use the same location/title parse as the search index. Postings are aggregated from public ATS/board feeds; figures are indicative, not exhaustive. Every measure and the signals only we produce are in the data library, and coverage/liveness in the data-health report. Refreshed October 2026.

Previous editions

2026-09