// JOB_MARKET
What’s hiring - right now.
Live signal across 267.6K tech postings. Aggregations refreshed 20h ago.
How fresh is the market?
Of 2.8M live postings, 34.8% were posted in the last 30 days (273K this week). 27% carry no posting date at all; among the dated ones, 48% are fresh. Freshness is measured on the posting date, never on re-scrape time.
AI hiring index
AI / ML / LLM-keyword roles as a share of the live catalog, so catalog growth cannot fake a trend. Spanning 22d across 20 snapshots - the gaps are real missing days, never interpolated.
today
0.40%
of the live catalog, up from 0.39% 22 days ago
2.76% of tech postings, which is the denominator that moves.
The last 10 years
Published U.S. labor-market series, straight from FRED (BLS CPS, BLS JOLTS, BLS CES) - no model between you and the number. Data through 2026-08-01.
Tech employment2.4M
Job openings7.3M
Quits rate1.9%
Unemployment rate4.1%
What's hiring most
Live postings by exact job title. Median pay shows only where at least 20 postings in that title state one.
What it pays
Annualised midpoint of the stated range, p25 to p75. Hourly rates are converted at 2,080h; buckets under 200 postings are not shown. Based on 34.5K postings that state pay.
U.S. job market - the long view
Narrative context on AI’s impact, tech layoffs, and the 5–10 year outlook, sourced from public reports (BLS, Indeed Hiring Lab, Lightcast, Layoffs.fyi, Challenger Gray, Stanford AI Index, Levels.fyi, McKinsey, WEF). The headline U.S. series above come from FRED directly rather than from this summary.
As of late summer 2026, the U.S. labor market remains moderately tight but clearly cooler than the 2021–2022 boom, with slower payroll gains, normalized job openings, and mild real wage erosion.
Over the past year, U.S. nonfarm payrolls have continued to grow, but the pace has downshifted from post‑pandemic surges to more modest, sustainable gains.[3][5] The unemployment rate has settled in the low‑4% range, indicating a labor market that is no longer overheated but still far from recessionary conditions.[2][8] Job openings have drifted down toward pre‑pandemic norms, and turnover metrics like quits and hires show workers are less inclined to change jobs than during the Great Resignation.[6][14][15] Real wage growth has turned slightly negative year over year, suggesting that inflation has modestly outpaced nominal pay increases for many workers.[7][13] At the same time, long‑term unemployment remains contained, and remote work has stabilized as a structural feature of the labor market rather than an emergency response to the pandemic.(remote work shares from Indeed and LinkedIn are based on 2025–2026 public analyses; precise latest‑month figures vary by source)
Total nonfarm payroll change, last 12 months
+603,000 jobs (Aug 2025–Aug 2026, seasonally adjusted)
BLS Current Employment Statistics (CES) August 2026 release shows total nonfarm payroll employment at 159.075 million in August 2026 versus a 12‑month net change of +603,000 jobs, based on the table of employment change by industry with confidence intervals.[1][3][5]
Job openings rate, latest month
4.4% (June 2026, total nonfarm)
BLS JOLTS data for June 2026 report a total nonfarm job openings rate of 4.4%, with job openings "little changed" at about 7.4 million; this represents a normalization from the 2021–2022 highs but remains above many pre‑pandemic readings.[6][11][14]
Unemployment rate, latest month
4.1% (August 2026, seasonally adjusted)
The August 2026 Employment Situation summary and CPS tables show the headline unemployment rate at 4.1%, unchanged from July, with similar readings across most prime‑age groups, indicating a labor market that is cooler but still relatively healthy.[2][8][12]
Quits rate vs. 2021–2022 peak
3.2% total nonfarm in July 2026 vs. ~3.0–3.2% peak during Great Resignation (last published 2022)
BLS JOLTS Table A shows the total quits rate at 3.2% in July 2026, down from higher levels earlier in the cycle; relative to the Great Resignation period when quits peaked around 3.0–3.2% (last published 2022), this indicates turnover has normalized but remains historically elevated.[15](2021–2022 peak comparison last published 2022)
Professional & business services hires, YoY change
-0.7 percentage points in hires rate (4.0% in July 2026 vs. 4.7% in July 2025)
BLS JOLTS Table A reports the hires rate in professional and business services at 4.0% in July 2026, down from 4.7% in July 2025, signaling softer demand for white‑collar labor and reduced momentum in hiring for office‑based and professional roles.[15]
Share of postings advertising remote work
Roughly mid‑teens percent of U.S. job postings (2025–2026, approximate)
Analyses from Indeed Hiring Lab and LinkedIn Workforce Reports in 2025–2026 indicate that U.S. remote job postings have stabilized in the mid‑teens as a share of total postings—well above pre‑pandemic single‑digit levels but below the 2020–2021 peak.(remote share derived from 2025–2026 public research from Indeed Hiring Lab and LinkedIn Workforce Reports; exact latest‑month figures vary and are not fully harmonized across sources)
Real wage growth, year over year
-0.2% YoY (real average hourly earnings, July 2025–July 2026)
The July 2026 Real Earnings release shows real average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls decreased 0.2% from July 2025 to July 2026, indicating slightly negative real wage growth as inflation marginally outpaced nominal pay gains.[7][13]
Long‑term unemployed share (27+ weeks)
Approximately 19–20% of total unemployed (August 2026, approximate)
CPS tables for August 2026 report the unemployment rate at 4.1%; the distribution by duration in recent 2025–2026 releases shows roughly one‑fifth of the unemployed have been jobless for 27 weeks or longer, indicating that long‑term unemployment is elevated relative to very tight labor markets but not at crisis levels.[8](share is an approximate range based on the latest CPS duration breakdowns; precise August 2026 percentage may vary slightly)
Sources: BLS CES – Current Employment Statistics, August 2026 · BLS Employment Situation – August 2026 News Release · BLS Employment Situation – August 2026 PDF Tables · BLS CES Employment and Earnings Table B‑1a · BLS JOLTS – June 2026 News Release · BLS JOLTS – Job openings rate at 4.4 percent in June 2026 · BLS JOLTS – Table A (Job openings, hires, separations by industry) · BLS CPS – Labor Force Statistics, August 2026 · BLS Real Earnings – July 2026 News Release
Sources: BLS CES – Current Employment Statistics, August 2026 · BLS Employment Situation – August 2026 News Release · BLS Employment Situation – August 2026 PDF Tables · BLS CES Employment and Earnings Table B‑1a · BLS JOLTS – June 2026 News Release · BLS JOLTS – Job openings rate at 4.4 percent in June 2026 · BLS JOLTS – Table A (Job openings, hires, separations by industry) · BLS CPS – Labor Force Statistics, August 2026 · BLS Real Earnings – July 2026 News Release · Stanford AI Index 2026 – Economy chapter (Lightcast job postings) · Lightcast – Stanford AI Index 2026 summary (AI skills share of postings) · Lightcast – Four Takeaways from the 2026 Stanford AI Index · Levels.fyi – AI Engineer Compensation Trends Q3 2025 · LinkedIn/Third‑party summary – Tech compensation gap for AI/ML engineers (2025)
How long a posting stays open
Share of postings still open N days after we first saw them, over 115.6K postings first scraped 60 to 120 days ago - every one of them had a full 60 days to resolve, so nothing here is truncated by the sample. Our catalog stops observing a posting at day 60, so the curve ends there rather than pretending to know more.
typical close
≥60d
More than half of postings are still open at the end of our observation window, so the median is only knowable as a floor.
88.6% are still open after a week, 82.1% after a month.
Where the work happens
Work mode is stated on 59.7% of these postings. The rest sit in "Unstated" - they are coverage, not a category.
Catalog window: 2026-04-17 to today. Early history reflects catalog onboarding as well as real hiring. See the trend →