Pay and hiring: advertised pay by how much an employer is hiring
Advertised pay by the number of jobs an employer has open now, from 80,076 live postings, with the gap against other employers once function, level and industry are matched. Hiring growth follows as months of data build up. As of November 3, 2026.
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Pay by jobs open now
Hiring volume is the employer's count of live postings on the board today. It rises with employer size and with how much of its hiring appears on public career sites.
| Group | Median | Middle half | Gap, job mix matched | Postings | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-4 jobs open | $104,500 | $72,500 to $147,500 | −13.5% | 7,013 | 5,117 |
| 5-19 jobs open | $135,000 | $92,500 to $180,000 | −5.3% | 13,253 | 3,696 |
| 20-99 jobs open | $145,000 | $101,000 to $190,000 | +1.4% | 24,935 | 2,237 |
| 100-499 jobs open | $150,000 | $107,000 to $199,000 | +4.2% | 21,124 | 643 |
| 500+ jobs open | $146,500 | $106,000 to $194,500 | +3.7% | 12,652 | 90 |
Hiring growth
Not shown yet.
We have 1 monthly snapshot so far (2026-11). Growth is the change in an employer’s openings from one month to the next, so it needs several months of the same employers. When 4 months are stored, this page adds pay for employers whose hiring is rising, steady or falling. We do not infer growth from when a posting was first seen, because the crawl only reaches back a few months and would read every employer as growing.
Questions about this data
- Do employers that are hiring more pay more?
- By hiring volume, employers with 500+ jobs open advertise +3.7% against other employers once function, level and industry are matched. Volume is how many jobs an employer has open now; it is not growth.
- Where are the hiring growth figures?
- Growth needs the same employers measured month after month. We store every paid-pay employer's openings count once a month, starting 2026-11, and will publish growth once 4 months are in. Until then we show hiring volume and do not estimate growth from older data.
Method, download and how to cite
Data as of November 3, 2026. Rebuilt daily.
Pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posted (or stated in the posting text), converted to a year, on live U.S. professional jobs. It is advertised pay, not what anyone is paid.
A “gap, job mix matched” compares postings inside cells of the same function, level and industry, so a group is not credited for simply holding more senior or better-paid roles. It needs 150 or more postings across at least 5 cells with 15 postings on each side, and is shown as n/a otherwise. A gap is a difference in advertised pay between postings. It does not show that a skill, an industry or an employer size causes higher pay.
Download the CSV (aggregates only; no posting, employer or person is in it). Cite as: NextChapter, “Advertised pay in U.S. professional job postings, by employer hiring volume”, data as of November 3, 2026, https://launchyournextchapter.com/resources/pay-data/hiring
See also the AI skills salary premium, which uses the same method for AI skills only, and the salary by job title pages.
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