Remote Work Statistics 2026
Computed live from every job on this board — 8,908 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: October 13, 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 45 days of posting. We can measure this because every listing is checked daily and delisted the day it closes — 2,832 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 32.4% of remote listings publish a salary, despite transparency laws — the majority of remote hiring still happens salary-blind.
- 51.5% 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 $155,525 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 | 2,213 | $180,000 |
| Sales | 1,563 | $155,000 |
| Operations | 1,197 | $135,000 |
| Marketing | 687 | $155,000 |
| Customer Support | 602 | $131,000 |
| Design | 492 | $159,000 |
| Data Science | 469 | $160,000 |
| Product Management | 407 | $200,000 |
| DevOps & IT | 326 | $180,000 |
| Finance & Accounting | 324 | $145,000 |
| Healthcare | 248 | $104,000 |
| Project Management | 135 | $151,000 |
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 — 755 open roles
- Speechify — 257 open roles
- Harvey — 220 open roles
- GitLab — 194 open roles
- Ramp — 129 open roles
- Preply — 111 open roles
- Nebius — 107 open roles
- Stripe — 98 open roles
- Reddit — 98 open roles
- Mozilla — 95 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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