What the job market is doing

Every open job posting from about 1,900 company career pages and four federal job families, collected fresh every morning. Search all of them →

Postings do not stay open long

Of the postings that have closed so far, **half were gone within

The practical version: a posting you find in its first week is worth applying to, and one you have been sitting on for two weeks probably is not. No job board publishes this — it exists here only because the pipeline photographs every board daily and notices what disappeared.

What is worth learning is not always what pays

Each dot is a skill. Right means more employers ask for it; up means the postings that mention it pay more. The two are not the same axis, which is the whole point of plotting them together.

Is hiring picking up?

Roughly as many jobs open as close, which is what a market holding steady looks like. The weekly rhythm is real: hiring on a weekend runs at a few percent of a weekday.

This is per hour rather than per day on purpose. The pipeline photographs the boards once a morning, but "once a morning" has meant anything from 15 hours apart to 25 — so a raw daily count says as much about when the collector ran as about who was hiring. Dividing by the hours actually watched removes that. It is also the youngest thing on the site, with only as much history as the pipeline has been running.

Where the jobs are

A city name here means the posting says that city — plenty of them are also remote-friendly, and the two are not exclusive. About one posting in five names no city at all — either because the location field is just "Remote", or because it names only a country ("United States"). Those are missing from this chart rather than bundled into a bar, so read it as "of the postings that name a city", not as a share of everything.

"New York" and "New York City" are still counted separately, as are "Bengaluru" and "Bangalore". Two spellings of one place is a different problem from an unparsed string, and it is not fixed yet.