The US job market in numbers

Which states show pay

2,380,825 of 5,039,962 open US jobs (47.2%) state a pay figure in the posting. The share runs from 73.7% in Washington to 26.5% 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.

Employers with the most open jobs

Open jobs counted per employer name.

Employers that posted the most new jobs

Jobs posted in the 7 days before the snapshot: 76,979 in all.

Metro areas with the most open jobs

Census metro areas (CBSA). A job listed in two metros counts in both.

Most common roles

Job titles matched to a standard role. Titles with no match are left out, so these are lower bounds.

Posted pay

This is the pay employers wrote in the posting, for the 2,112,927 jobs whose posted pay is in US dollars and within sane bounds. Each job counts once, at the middle of its posted range, as a yearly figure: monthly pay is multiplied by 12 and hourly pay by 2,080 hours (65.8% of these jobs posted an hourly rate). It is not an average salary, and jobs that state no pay are not in it.

Read the median as: half of the jobs with posted pay have a yearly midpoint above $54,080.

Remote, hybrid and on-site

Most postings (78%) do not say where the work happens. Of the 1,117,313 that do, 9.1% are remote. "Of stated" is the share among jobs that state an arrangement; "of all" is the share of every open job.

How long jobs stay open

Days from each open job's posted date to the snapshot: a quarter were 26 days old or less, half 47 days or less, three quarters 136 days or less.

How these numbers are made

Every figure comes from one snapshot (mi-20261101T075906Z) 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.

Open US jobs. Pay is each job's first posted USD pay (range midpoint, monthly pay times 12, hourly pay times 2,080 hours), kept only inside sane bounds, shown as year percentiles. Cells with fewer than the minimum jobs are not stored, and pay figures need that many jobs with pay. Rows with fewer than 30 jobs are left out of the tables.

Before a snapshot is published, sampled answers are recomputed a second way from the raw job rows. This one: sample check: 395 of 395 cells recomputed a second way agreed (counts exact, pay within 1 dollar, days within 0.06); this checks the snapshot's arithmetic, not how current it is.

Get the numbers yourself

Every table here comes from the free market_lookup and market_breakdown tools, with no account and no key. They also answer by role, state, metro, city and employer, and salary_range gives the pay to ask for in a role. 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_breakdown","arguments":{"by":"state","sort":"share_with_pay","limit":50}}}'

For the job records behind any figure, use the jobs API: the first 100,000 records each month are free.

More data

• Job postings datasets by country, state and occupation
• Posted salary data by role
• Open jobs by employer
• Coverage: countries and job board platforms
• How to get a daily dataset of open jobs