5,887,281 open jobs in the US, read from employers' own career sites and job boards. 49.5% of them state pay: New York is highest at 77.2% and Louisiana lowest at 33.1%. 2.0% of all open jobs say they are remote; most jobs say nothing about where the work happens. 632,948 jobs were posted in the 7 days before the snapshot, 13,439 of them by Domino's. Half of open jobs had been posted for 41 days or more.
Which states show pay
2,917,430 of 5,887,281 open US jobs (49.5%) state a pay figure in the posting. The share runs from 77.2% in New York to 33.1% in Louisiana. 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 | 560,942 | 72.5% |
| Texas | 556,899 | 36.3% |
| Florida | 364,289 | 37.7% |
| New York | 325,753 | 77.2% |
| Pennsylvania | 241,303 | 41.4% |
| Ohio | 230,980 | 41.7% |
| Illinois | 227,346 | 73.0% |
| North Carolina | 213,330 | 37.9% |
| Virginia | 207,143 | 69.0% |
| Georgia | 193,448 | 35.7% |
| Massachusetts | 173,535 | 74.0% |
| Michigan | 158,269 | 33.9% |
| New Jersey | 139,321 | 69.5% |
| Indiana | 137,550 | 35.9% |
| Arizona | 136,045 | 43.6% |
| Tennessee | 130,069 | 37.7% |
| Washington | 123,799 | 76.5% |
| Colorado | 120,628 | 74.2% |
| Maryland | 117,302 | 69.2% |
| Wisconsin | 115,648 | 44.5% |
| Minnesota | 115,481 | 75.2% |
| Missouri | 112,716 | 39.7% |
| South Carolina | 104,420 | 35.4% |
| Alabama | 85,009 | 33.6% |
| Connecticut | 78,110 | 54.2% |
| Iowa | 72,683 | 45.7% |
| Kentucky | 72,680 | 36.4% |
| Kansas | 70,788 | 45.7% |
| Louisiana | 69,481 | 33.1% |
| Oregon | 67,239 | 56.8% |
| Oklahoma | 62,804 | 38.7% |
| Utah | 56,486 | 51.4% |
| Nevada | 53,099 | 52.2% |
| Arkansas | 46,459 | 39.3% |
| Mississippi | 40,434 | 35.1% |
| District of Columbia | 39,893 | 69.8% |
| New Mexico | 39,746 | 46.8% |
| Nebraska | 39,346 | 44.3% |
| New Hampshire | 37,300 | 47.7% |
| Idaho | 33,672 | 48.6% |
| Montana | 33,490 | 60.3% |
| West Virginia | 31,298 | 41.6% |
| Alaska | 29,253 | 39.8% |
| Hawaii | 28,422 | 72.5% |
| Maine | 28,076 | 72.2% |
| Delaware | 25,783 | 55.8% |
| Rhode Island | 24,628 | 64.4% |
| North Dakota | 20,598 | 60.8% |
| South Dakota | 19,753 | 56.0% |
| Vermont | 19,038 | 71.0% |
| Wyoming | 13,874 | 61.6% |
Employers with the most open jobs
Open jobs counted per employer name.
| Employer | Open jobs |
|---|---|
| CROSSMARK | 50,330 |
| H&R Block | 42,925 |
| Allied Universal | 39,688 |
| Walmart | 39,503 |
| Dollar General Corporation | 33,528 |
| Domino's | 33,235 |
| Walgreens | 26,904 |
| Home Depot | 24,272 |
| Costco Wholesale Corporation | 23,348 |
| LOWE'S HOME CENTERS, LLC | 22,175 |
Employers that posted the most new jobs
Jobs posted in the 7 days before the snapshot: 632,948 in all.
| Employer | New jobs |
|---|---|
| Domino's | 13,439 |
| LOWE'S HOME CENTERS, LLC | 12,287 |
| Great Clips | 5,056 |
| Allied Universal | 4,693 |
| Walgreens | 4,191 |
| Guitar Center | 3,569 |
| AMN Healthcare | 3,447 |
| LongHorn Steakhouse | 3,335 |
| Cintas | 3,162 |
| Home Depot | 2,695 |
Cities with the most open jobs
Cities as the job posting names them. A job listed in two cities counts in both.
| City | Open jobs |
|---|---|
| New York, NY | 96,817 |
| Houston, TX | 70,020 |
| Chicago, IL | 62,372 |
| Austin, TX | 54,587 |
| Dallas, TX | 54,278 |
| Atlanta, GA | 54,074 |
| San Francisco, CA | 50,286 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 44,702 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 43,570 |
| Boston, MA | 43,352 |
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 | 89,118 | 7,874 |
| Registered Nurse | 57,925 | 7,271 |
| Retail Sales Associate | 47,462 | 5,874 |
| Assistant Manager | 35,227 | 5,210 |
| Cashier | 31,941 | 4,750 |
| Manager | 31,723 | 3,996 |
| Cook | 29,846 | 2,959 |
| Team Member | 28,120 | 2,084 |
| Customer Service Representative | 25,805 | 5,305 |
| Server | 25,591 | 2,440 |
| Maintenance Technician | 24,889 | 3,430 |
| Director | 23,853 | 2,944 |
| Physical Therapist | 23,399 | 1,825 |
| Licensed Practical Nurse | 22,990 | 2,844 |
| Software Engineer | 22,817 | 1,838 |
| Assistant Store Manager | 22,390 | 1,181 |
| Shift Lead | 21,800 | 1,824 |
| General Manager | 21,591 | 3,041 |
| Medical Assistant | 19,997 | 2,653 |
| Crew Member | 19,844 | 1,029 |
Posted pay
This is the pay employers wrote in the posting, for the 2,645,836 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 (66.5% of these jobs posted an hourly rate). It is not an average salary, and jobs that state no pay are not in it.
| Percentile | Posted pay a year |
|---|---|
| 25th | $39,520 |
| Median | $53,851 |
| 75th | $97,500 |
| 90th | $155,000 |
Read the median as: half of the jobs with posted pay have a yearly midpoint above $53,851.
Remote, hybrid and on-site
Most postings (78%) do not say where the work happens. Of the 1,321,941 that do, 9.0% 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 | 118,822 | 9.0% | 2.0% |
| Hybrid | 123,641 | 9.3% | 2.1% |
| On-site | 1,079,478 | 81.7% | 18.3% |
| Not stated | 4,565,340 | - | 77.5% |
How long jobs stay open
Days from each open job's posted date to the snapshot: a quarter were 15 days old or less, half 41 days or less, three quarters 112 days or less.
Use and cite this data
Data from Headcount Labs, licensed under ODbL 1.0. 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 November 12, 2026. https://headcountlabs.com/reports/us-job-market/2026-11-12/. Licensed under ODbL 1.0.
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). Public subsets of the underlying job records are on Hugging Face, under the same licence. Questions from reporters and researchers: contact us.
How these numbers are made
Every figure comes from one snapshot (mi-20261112T080315Z) 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, 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.