3,005,352 open jobs in the US from 80,496 employers, read from employers' own career sites and job boards. 44.7% of them state pay: Washington is highest at 70.9% and Mississippi lowest at 24.9%. 2.3% of all open jobs say they are remote; most jobs say nothing about where the work happens. 209,357 jobs were posted in the 7 days before the snapshot, 9,163 of them by AMN Healthcare. Half of open jobs had been posted for 43 days or more.
Which states show pay
1,343,095 of 3,005,352 open US jobs (44.7%) state a pay figure in the posting. The share runs from 70.9% in Washington to 24.9% in Mississippi. A job listed in two states counts in both.
Open jobs by state
Open jobs in each state, with the share whose posting states pay. Download the table as CSV.
| State | Open jobs | State pay |
|---|---|---|
| California | 298,261 | 67.6% |
| Texas | 282,222 | 29.7% |
| Florida | 174,801 | 31.8% |
| New York | 162,952 | 69.9% |
| Ohio | 118,138 | 34.2% |
| Illinois | 114,139 | 66.0% |
| Pennsylvania | 112,344 | 35.0% |
| Virginia | 103,711 | 59.2% |
| North Carolina | 102,795 | 33.5% |
| Georgia | 101,015 | 30.8% |
| Massachusetts | 84,439 | 68.9% |
| Michigan | 76,852 | 32.6% |
| Arizona | 70,615 | 37.9% |
| New Jersey | 68,869 | 60.8% |
| Tennessee | 67,170 | 31.7% |
| Indiana | 66,588 | 32.5% |
| Washington | 65,638 | 70.9% |
| Colorado | 64,793 | 65.7% |
| Minnesota | 61,030 | 66.3% |
| Wisconsin | 60,169 | 35.6% |
| Maryland | 58,580 | 63.6% |
| Missouri | 57,550 | 32.7% |
| South Carolina | 50,131 | 29.0% |
| Alabama | 43,712 | 26.9% |
| Connecticut | 36,468 | 47.8% |
| Kentucky | 36,177 | 30.0% |
| Oregon | 35,060 | 50.7% |
| Louisiana | 32,289 | 25.6% |
| Oklahoma | 32,063 | 32.3% |
| Iowa | 31,045 | 36.2% |
| Utah | 28,597 | 40.4% |
| Kansas | 28,106 | 30.6% |
| Nevada | 27,059 | 45.4% |
| District of Columbia | 21,644 | 60.8% |
| Arkansas | 20,793 | 29.5% |
| New Mexico | 20,640 | 39.2% |
| New Hampshire | 19,687 | 34.8% |
| Nebraska | 18,906 | 34.5% |
| Mississippi | 18,319 | 24.9% |
| Idaho | 15,993 | 36.8% |
| West Virginia | 12,930 | 31.1% |
| Maine | 12,401 | 68.0% |
| Hawaii | 11,992 | 62.9% |
| Montana | 10,769 | 42.5% |
| Delaware | 10,473 | 43.7% |
| North Dakota | 9,728 | 45.0% |
| Rhode Island | 9,577 | 47.0% |
| Alaska | 8,623 | 44.9% |
| South Dakota | 8,547 | 44.7% |
| Vermont | 7,520 | 66.0% |
| Wyoming | 5,833 | 45.1% |
Employers with the most open jobs
Open jobs counted per employer name, across 80,496 employers.
| Employer | Open jobs |
|---|---|
| H&R Block | 42,452 |
| Costco | 20,164 |
| AMN Healthcare | 16,320 |
| Allied Universal | 13,128 |
| Acosta | 12,510 |
| Lifewise Academy | 11,413 |
| Orkin LLC | 10,588 |
| PetSmart | 9,717 |
| ULTA Beauty | 9,713 |
| Dhanani Group | 8,893 |
Employers that posted the most new jobs
Jobs posted in the 7 days before the snapshot: 209,357 in all.
| Employer | New jobs |
|---|---|
| AMN Healthcare | 9,163 |
| Allied Universal | 2,398 |
| Best Buy | 1,306 |
| MasTec Inc | 1,224 |
| Veterans Health Administration | 1,219 |
| UHS | 910 |
| Ryder | 783 |
| Catalyst Brands | 768 |
| Kelly Services | 750 |
| Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. | 737 |
Metro areas with the most open jobs
Census metro areas (CBSA). A job listed in two metros counts in both.
| Metro area | Open jobs |
|---|---|
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | 86,596 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | 57,126 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 55,808 |
| Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 50,772 |
| Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN | 50,485 |
| Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH | 40,330 |
| Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | 40,047 |
| Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX | 39,541 |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | 35,612 |
| Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 31,775 |
Most common roles
Job titles matched to a standard role. Titles with no match are left out, so these are lower bounds.
| Role | Open jobs | Posted in 7 days |
|---|---|---|
| Sales Associate | 41,369 | 3,284 |
| Registered Nurse | 31,259 | 3,597 |
| Tax Associate | 20,501 | 9 |
| Retail Sales Associate | 19,253 | 1,744 |
| Cook | 17,252 | 1,126 |
| Manager | 15,520 | 1,173 |
| Server | 15,424 | 681 |
| Maintenance Technician | 15,120 | 1,071 |
| Licensed Practical Nurse | 14,875 | 1,096 |
| Physical Therapist | 14,159 | 1,037 |
| Assistant Manager | 14,055 | 757 |
| Team Member | 14,010 | 529 |
| Software Engineer | 13,189 | 755 |
| Director | 12,391 | 1,007 |
| Tax Professional | 11,905 | 0 |
| Caregiver | 11,829 | 728 |
| Cashier | 11,563 | 805 |
| Certified Nursing Assistant | 11,096 | 835 |
| Customer Service Representative | 10,646 | 749 |
| Project Manager | 10,558 | 508 |
Posted pay
This is the pay employers wrote in the posting, for the 1,343,095 jobs that state it. Each job counts once, at the middle of its posted range; yearly and hourly ranges are kept apart. It is not an average salary, and jobs that state no pay are not in it.
| Pay | Jobs | 25th pct. | Median | 75th pct. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly | 453,497 | $75,297 | $107,450 | $158,000 |
| Hourly | 703,821 | $17.50 | $21.08 | $28.50 |
Read the median as: half of the yearly ranges posted have a midpoint above $107,450, and half of the hourly ranges a midpoint above $21.08.
Remote, hybrid and on-site
Most postings (77%) do not say where the work happens. Of the 682,430 that do, 9.9% are remote. "Of stated" is the share among jobs that state an arrangement; "of all" is the share of every open job.
| Stated as | Open jobs | Of stated | Of all |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remote | 67,747 | 9.9% | 2.3% |
| Hybrid | 63,535 | 9.3% | 2.1% |
| On-site | 551,148 | 80.8% | 18.3% |
| Not stated | 2,322,922 | - | 77.3% |
How long jobs stay open
Days from each open job's posted date to the snapshot: a quarter were 20 days old or less, half 43 days or less, three quarters 128 days or less. 937,442 jobs had been posted more than 90 days earlier.
Use and cite this data
Data from Headcount Labs, licensed under CC BY 4.0. You may quote, chart and republish these numbers, including commercially, with a credit and a link. Cite as:
Headcount Labs (2026). The US job market in numbers, snapshot of October 14, 2026. https://headcountlabs.com/reports/us-job-market/2026-10-14/. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Downloads for this snapshot: states.csv (open jobs and pay share by state) and snapshot.json (every answer on this page, as served by the API). The underlying job records are in the open Headcount Labs job postings dataset on Hugging Face, under the same license. Questions from reporters and researchers: contact us.
How these numbers are made
Every figure comes from one snapshot (mi-20261014T234333Z) of the jobs Headcount Labs reads from employers' own career sites and applicant tracking systems. Copies of the same opening are merged into one job. Counts elsewhere on this site are read live from the API at other times and with other filters, so they can differ from these.
- Jobs by state. Open jobs counted per US state of their locations; a job listed in two states counts in both.
- Pay transparency. Share of open jobs in each state whose posting states a pay figure.
- Top employers. Open jobs counted per employer; an employer is its normalized name.
- New postings employers. Jobs first posted in the 7 days before the snapshot (the source's posted date, or when we first saw the job), counted per employer.
- Top metros. Open US jobs counted per metro area (Census CBSA) of their locations; a job in two metros counts in both.
- Top roles. Each job title matched to a standard role from 200,000 labelled titles; titles with no match are left out of the ranking.
- Pay. Posted USD pay from each job's first posting: the midpoint of the range, monthly pay times 12, yearly and hourly kept apart; quartiles need at least 10 jobs.
- Work arrangement. Each job's stated work arrangement; shares are of the jobs that state one, and most jobs state none.
- Posting age. Days from each open job's posted date to the snapshot date; quartiles and the counts over 30 and 90 days.
Before a snapshot is published, sampled answers are recomputed a second way from the raw job rows. This one: checked: 208 of 208 sample cells matched (counts exact, pay and day figures within 0.01, shares within 0.0001).
Get the numbers yourself
Every table here is one call to the free market_insights tool, with no account and no key. It also answers by role, state, metro, city and employer. See the MCP tools reference.
curl -s https://api.headcountlabs.com/mcp/public \
-H "content-type: application/json" -H "accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call",
"params":{"name":"market_insights","arguments":{"question":"pay_transparency"}}}'For the job records behind any figure, use the jobs API: the first 100,000 records each month are free.