Current statistics on job postings, salaries, remote work, and posting lifespans, measured directly from nearly 700,000 live job postings across 3,300+ employers, pulled from employer applicant tracking systems and government job boards by JobWeb Board. Each figure carries the date it was measured and links to the full analysis with methodology; the corpus grows daily, so cite the date alongside the number. Cite freely with a link to this page; numbers are refreshed as new analyses are published.
What percentage of job postings list a salary?
- 24.2% of live postings list an annual salary (161,000+ of 661,163 postings, July 23, 2026)
- Including hourly-rate disclosures, about 30% show a usable pay number
- Three out of four postings tell you nothing about pay
- 18% of companies list pay on none of their postings
- Salary disclosure by seniority runs backwards: individual contributors 21.8%, managers 39.5%, directors 51.4%, executives 43.1%
Full analysis: Three out of four job postings won’t tell you the pay
How many job postings say whether a job is remote?
- 51.3% of live postings state no work mode at all (343,310 of 669,822 postings, July 24, 2026)
- Of all postings: 23.5% onsite, 14.4% hybrid, 10.8% remote
- Fully remote roles are about 1 in 9 of the whole market
- 42.3% of postings state neither pay nor work mode; only 1 in 6 states both
- Postings that hide work mode also hide pay: only 17.5% of no-work-mode postings list a salary, versus 40.3% of hybrid postings
Full analysis: Half of job postings won’t say where you’ll work
What do disclosed salaries look like in the US?
All figures from US postings listing an annual salary, July 25, 2026:
- Median: $130,650; middle half of the market: $90,380 to $178,839; average: $142,785
- Remote premium: remote median $150,000 vs onsite $118,797, about 26% more
- By seniority: individual contributor $120,627, manager $142,738, director $207,104, executive $185,000 (the executive dip reflects VP-heavy postings and privately negotiated C-suite pay)
- Same rung, different market: engineering IC median $161,418 vs finance IC $100,000
- A separate hourly market: 40,000+ postings disclose hourly rates, median $19.75/hour
Full analysis: What posted salaries actually say about the US job market
How long do job postings stay open?
From a cohort of newly created postings tracked for six to ten weeks (July 26, 2026):
- 1 in 4 postings is gone within 7 days
- Still open after 7 days: 72.5% · 14 days: 55.8% · 30 days: 42.4% · six weeks: 28.3%
- Closure speed varies enormously by industry: staffing and recruiting postings are gone within 30 days 94.9% of the time, government 77.1%, software 34.1%, aerospace and defense 25.7%
- Among postings confirmed still open, the median age is 19 days, and 1 in 8 has been open more than 90 days
- Daily churn: roughly 14,000 new postings arrive and at least 7,000 close every day
Full analysis: One in four job postings disappears within a week
How many job postings mention benefits?
From full-text analysis of 646,068 live job descriptions (July 27, 2026):
- 43.7% of postings never name a single specific benefit: 13.9% say only “benefits” generically, and 29.8% say nothing at all
- Among full-time postings, 28.7% still say nothing; part-time postings are less silent (23.2%)
- Mention rates by benefit: health insurance 37.3%, retirement/401(k) 37.2%, paid time off 36.2%, bonus 24.2%, parental leave 21.0%, tuition assistance 12.5%, equity/stock 11.3%
- Parental leave appears in only 1 in 5 postings
- Benefits silence travels with pay silence: postings that disclose pay name specific benefits 79.3% of the time, versus 41.7% for postings that don’t
- Industry figures are dominated by high-volume employers: retail’s parental-leave rate is 35.8% with its three biggest employers and 6.5% without them
Full analysis: 43% of job postings won’t name a single benefit
Which industries have the most job postings?
From a snapshot of 697,746 live postings across 3,321 employers (July 28, 2026):
- Healthcare and life sciences is the largest industry at 18.4% of postings, and the broadest: 396 employers, with the top three holding only 30% of its volume
- Retail and e-commerce is 16.7%, from just 100 employers, two-thirds of it from three companies
- Financial services 11.8%, professional services 9.0%, government and public sector 7.1%
- Software and technology is 6.3% of postings while fielding more employers (611) than any other industry on the board
- Tech roles are about 11% of all live postings; clinical healthcare roles are about 10%
- 64% of postings name a US location; India is second at just under 10%, more than Canada and the UK combined
Full analysis: Most software jobs aren’t at tech companies
Where are software and tech jobs posted?
Across 80,544 live tech postings (July 28, 2026):
- Only 12.2% are at software and technology companies
- Professional services and consulting hold 32.7%, nearly three times as many, from just 60 employers
- Financial services 13.7%, aerospace and defense 8.3%, staffing and recruiting 7.1%
- US-only postings: aerospace and defense 20.4%, financial services 18.5%, software and technology 15.3%
- The ratio is stable across definitions: counted narrowly (72,700 postings) or at the widest defensible line (94,000), the tech-company share stays between 12.2% and 12.4%
- Half of the 122,867 postings with “engineer” in the title are not software roles
Full analysis: Most software jobs aren’t at tech companies
How long is a typical job posting, and how much of it is boilerplate?
From a snapshot of 726,937 live postings (July 29, 2026):
- The median posting runs about 900 words; the longest 5% run past 2,300
- Total posting length varies more than fourfold across industries, but the job description inside varies less than twofold
- Boilerplate share of the median posting: government 58.3%, higher education 40.6%, marketing 24.6%, retail 23.2%, software 17.9%, aerospace and telecommunications 16.0%
- Government postings are the longest at 2,637 words, but only 1,014 of those are job description, against software’s 832 in a 906-word posting
- Short is not better: postings under 500 words state the pay 25.6% of the time, against 90% for postings over 2,000 words
- Same length, opposite information: consumer-goods postings run 754 words and state pay 84.4% of the time; professional-services postings run 780 words and state it 9.5% of the time
Full analysis: Long job postings aren’t detailed. They’re disclaimed.
Do employers still require a degree?
From 707,766 live postings carrying a real description (July 31, 2026):
- 152,405 postings (21.5%) name a specific credential: a bachelor’s, master’s, MBA, doctorate, or associate’s degree
- Of those, only 17.3% say experience could count instead; four in five name the credential and stop there
- The alternative narrows as the credential rises: bachelor’s 20.6%, master’s or MBA 13.3%, associate’s 12.1%, doctorate 11.3%
- By industry, the share offering an alternative runs from 36.0% in financial services and 26.3% in higher education down to 9.3% in healthcare and 6.9% in retail
- Finance names a credential more often than software (26.0% vs 22.4%) yet is far likelier to waive it (36.0% vs 20.5%)
- This measures what postings state, not what employers enforce
Full analysis: Do you still need a degree?
Do government jobs list their salary?
From a snapshot of 743,276 live postings, of which 51,336 are public-sector (July 30, 2026):
- 95.6% of public-sector postings state what the job pays, against 37.1% for every other employer
- Public-sector postings also state a work mode more often: 59.1% versus 46.3%
- Median salaried pay is lower: $103,131 versus $130,000, about a 21% discount
- Median hourly pay is higher: $25.14 versus $19.13, about 31% more
- Only 2.0% of public-sector postings that state a work mode are remote, against roughly 11% market-wide
- Despite the sector’s reputation, only 36.0% name a specific benefit, against 50.8% elsewhere; parental leave appears in 10.1% versus 19.9%
- Concentration matters: veterans’ health administration alone is 19,248 of those postings from four employing entities, and military and defense operations another 13,755
Full analysis: Government jobs tell you what they pay. Almost nobody else does.
Which US states require salary ranges in job postings?
As of July 2026, thirteen states require a salary range in the posting itself: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington, plus Washington, D.C. and several cities. Two are new this month: Virginia (effective July 1, 2026) and Maine (effective July 29, 2026). Despite the laws, national disclosure remains at 24.2%, partly because coverage thresholds vary, enforcement is complaint-driven, and a wide “compliance range” satisfies many statutes while conveying little.
Background: the pay-transparency law section of our disclosure analysis.
About this data
All statistics are measured directly from live job postings on JobWeb Board, which sources postings from employer applicant tracking systems and government job boards rather than aggregators, and removes postings when they disappear at the source. Salary figures are USD annual base ranges represented by midpoints; hourly disclosures are counted separately. Each linked analysis carries its full methodology, including cohort construction and verification rules. Snapshot dates are stated per figure; the corpus and ratios are re-verified as new analyses are published.
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