Hiring as a leading signal
Companies post jobs months before headcount shows up in filings. Count openings over time to see expansion or a freeze early.
USE CASE / MARKET RESEARCH
See who is growing
before the numbers do.
Track hiring and posted pay by company, role and city to see who is growing, who is slowing down and how wages are moving.
10.1Mjob postings
200k+company job boards
24hevery board re-checked
500jobs a month free
Why Headcount Labs
Compare any two periods
posted_since and posted_until give you clean windows, so month-over-month and year-over-year comparisons take two calls.
Pay as posted
Where employers publish a range, you get it as written, to track wages by role, city or company.
Counted once
Duplicates across boards are merged, so a job reposted ten times counts once and your trend lines stay honest.
How it works
Ask your agent in plain words. It calls Headcount Labs through MCP, or your code calls the same filters over the REST API.
How has pay for warehouse workers in Texas changed over the past year? Break it down by month.
search_jobs{ filters: { title: "warehouse associate", state: "TX", posted_since: "2025-10-01" }, limit: 25, cursor: "…" }
Median posted pay for Texas warehouse workers rose from $17.40/h last October to $18.90/h this month, up 9%. The biggest jump came in November, ahead of holiday hiring.
Example conversation.
The same request over REST
curl -G https://api.headcountlabs.com/v1/jobs/count \
--data-urlencode "title=warehouse associate" \
--data-urlencode "state=TX" \
--data-urlencode "posted_since=2026-09-01" \
--data-urlencode "posted_until=2026-09-30" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $HEADCOUNTLABS_KEY"What you get
- Counts for any filter and date window
- Employer on every job
- Role, city, state and country
- Posted pay ranges as published
- Posted date and last-checked date
- Source links to audit any data point
More use cases
Job boards and HR tech
Launch job boards, recruiting platforms and matching tools on clean, deduplicated postings with direct links to apply.
Read more →AI startups
Feed your AI job-search or auto-apply product fresh, deduplicated openings with direct links to apply, from over 200,000 company job boards.
Read more →AI and ML training data
Millions of real, deduplicated job postings with full descriptions, titles, pay and locations to train, fine-tune and evaluate models.
Read more →AI agents
Give your AI agent a job search tool through MCP so it can find, track and apply to roles without crawling the web.
Read more →Lead generation
A company that is hiring has budget and a need. Find companies hiring for any role by title, location and number of openings.
Read more →Recruiting and pay benchmarks
See what competitors pay and which skills they ask for before you post your own role, from employers' own job boards.
Read more →Start with 500 jobs free.
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