Remote Work Statistics 2026
Computed live from every job on this board — 7,212 listings re-verified daily against each employer's own careers system. Not a survey, not last year's report: the actual state of the remote job market, recalculated every day.
Last updated: September 2, 2026 · Free to cite with a link to this page
Want the closing-date data on its own? Read the Ghost Jobs Report: how many remote listings are already closed, by posting age, category and company.
Key findings
- The median remote job closes within 13 days of posting. We can measure this because every listing is checked daily and delisted the day it closes — 2,226 jobs came down in the last 30 days alone (~24% of the board turning over monthly). Job boards that don't verify daily are showing you a market that has already moved on.
- Only 37.4% of remote listings publish a salary, despite transparency laws — the majority of remote hiring still happens salary-blind.
- 49% of remote jobs hire worldwide; the rest restrict by country or region, so "remote" only means "remote for some" about half the time.
- The median advertised remote salary is $170,000 across USD listings that publish pay — skewed toward the senior technical and go-to-market roles most likely to disclose.
Jobs and median salaries by category
| Category | Live jobs | Median advertised salary |
|---|---|---|
| Software Development | 1,914 | $190,000 |
| Sales | 1,110 | $166,000 |
| Operations | 1,070 | $137,000 |
| Marketing | 494 | $165,000 |
| Customer Support | 441 | $132,000 |
| Data Science | 394 | $179,000 |
| DevOps & IT | 348 | $175,000 |
| Design | 344 | $185,000 |
| Product Management | 303 | $204,000 |
| Finance & Accounting | 272 | $166,000 |
| Healthcare | 182 | $118,000 |
| Project Management | 125 | $158,000 |
Salary medians use the midpoint of advertised USD ranges; categories where too few listings publish pay show no figure.
Hiring the most right now
- Veeva Systems — 713 open roles
- Harvey — 227 open roles
- Affirm — 196 open roles
- GitLab — 188 open roles
- Remote — 183 open roles
- Included Health — 145 open roles
- ElevenLabs — 131 open roles
- Nebius — 115 open roles
- Cohere — 112 open roles
- Ramp — 112 open roles
Methodology
Every statistic on this page is computed directly from RemoteOnly's live dataset: remote job listings synced daily from employers' own applicant-tracking systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and others) and re-verified every day — a listing that closes at the source is removed the same day. "Median days open" measures posting-to-delisting time across jobs closed in the trailing 30 days. Salary figures use only salaries employers actually published, never estimates.
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