JOB MARKET
What’s hiring - right now.
Live signal across 535.7K tech postings. Aggregations refreshed 14h ago.
How fresh is the market?
Of 4.3M live postings, 37.1% were posted in the last 30 days (397.6K this week). 17% carry no posting date at all; among the dated ones, 45% 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 30d across 31 snapshots - the gaps are real missing days, never interpolated.
today
0.43%
of the live catalog, up from 0.42% 30 days ago
2.70% 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 2026-09-01.
Tech employment2.4M
Job openings7.1M
Quits rate1.9%
Unemployment rate4.2%
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 63.2K 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.
The U.S. labor market remains broadly active, but hiring has become more selective and remote opportunities continue to represent a minority of postings.
Recent labor-market releases show continued hiring across the economy, including professional and business services. The latest available JOLTS result in the provided evidence reports 5.192 million hires and a 3.3% overall hires rate in August 2026, while professional and business services recorded 935,000 hires and a 4.2% hires rate.[1] Remote or hybrid work appeared in 8.5% of U.S. Indeed postings in August 2026, indicating that remote availability remains concentrated in a relatively small share of vacancies.[2] The available evidence does not provide defensible latest readings for payroll growth, unemployment, quits, real wage growth, or long-term unemployment, so those fields are omitted rather than estimated.
Professional and business services hires
935,000; 4.2% hires rate
BLS JOLTS, August 2026. The sector recorded 935,000 hires, up from 899,000 in July, with the hires rate rising from 4.0% to 4.2%.[1]
Total hires
5.192 million; 3.3% hires rate
BLS JOLTS, August 2026. Total hires increased from 5.146 million in July to 5.192 million in August, while the hires rate rose from 3.2% to 3.3%.[1]
Remote or hybrid job postings
8.5%
Indeed Hiring Lab data reported for August 2026. Remote or hybrid terms appeared in 8.5% of U.S. job postings.[2]
Remote or hybrid job postings, alternative current reading
8.4%
Indeed data reported for August 31, 2026. A separate publication citing the Indeed Remote Tracker reported that 8.4% of U.S. postings advertised remote or hybrid work.[3]
Professional and business services employment
22.482 million
BLS industry data, September 2026 preliminary. Employment in professional and business services was reported at 22.482 million, down from 22.502 million in June.[5]
Professional and business services average hourly earnings
$46.03
BLS industry data, September 2026 preliminary. Average hourly earnings in professional and business services were reported at $46.03.[5]
Sources: BLS JOLTS Table 2, hires levels and rates by industry and region · BLS Professional and Business Services · Indeed Hiring Lab Data Portal · Indeed remote job statistics reported for 2026
Sources: BLS JOLTS Table 2, hires levels and rates by industry and region · BLS Professional and Business Services · Indeed Hiring Lab Data Portal · Indeed remote job statistics reported for 2026 · Stanford AI Index 2026, Economy chapter · Lightcast, Four Takeaways from the 2026 Stanford AI Index · Lightcast, The Generative AI Job Market: 2025 Data Insights · Lightcast, Tracking the Agentic AI Explosion in Jobs · Layoffs.fyi, 2026 Tech Layoffs · Layoffs.fyi, Press Statistics · Challenger, Gray & Christmas, July 2026 Report · Challenger AI and restructuring attribution, September 2026 reporting · TechRepublic summary of 2026 technology layoffs · TrueUp technology layoff tracker summary
How long a posting stays open
Share of postings still open N days after we first saw them, over 164K 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.
87.6% are still open after a week, 77.2% after a month.
Where the work happens
Work mode is stated on 67.7% 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 →