Three findings from 244,504 active job postings
These come from the job postings Seeker tracks, not the whole job market, and they describe what employers advertise rather than what people earn. Every chart shows its sample size, and each number links to how it was produced.
244,504 active postings · 32.5% list a salary · snapshot July 27, 2026
Most junior jobs ask for two years
Median years of experience requested at each Seeker level, counting only postings that give a number.
Based on 102,772 postings that state a number.
Of the Level 1 postings that give a number, 64 percent ask for two years or more. In design and marketing, about eight in ten do.
How this number was produced
- Analysis
- jobs.experience_by_level
- Version
- v1
- Snapshot
- 2026-07-27
- Sample size
- 102,772 postings
- Filters
- active postings that state a number for required years (42 percent of postings)
- Method
- Median of the required years stated in each posting, grouped by Seeker level. Only postings that give a number are counted, so this shows what postings ask for, not an average over every listing. No salary or currency is involved.
- Review status
- approved-for-publication
- Reviewed
- 2026-07-27
Pay climbs most from Level 3 to Level 4
Median advertised pay by Seeker level, for US postings that list a salary. The bar is the middle half of the range (25th to 75th percentile). The line marks the median, shown in dollars on the right.
Based on 56,110 US postings that list a salary.
The biggest step is from Level 3 to Level 4, about $47k. Above Level 4 the median stops rising in a straight line. That is because the higher levels are a mix of senior individual-contributor and management roles, not one track. Level 5 leans toward individual contributors and Level 6 toward management.
* Level 0 has only 110 salaried postings, so read it with care.
How this number was produced
- Analysis
- jobs.us_salary_by_level
- Version
- v1
- Snapshot
- 2026-07-27
- Sample size
- 56,110 US postings
- Filters
- active US postings that list a salary; salary midpoint between 20k and 800k
- Method
- Median advertised pay by Seeker level, US postings only so the figures are in US dollars. Currency is not standardized outside the US, so non-US postings are left out of the dollar figures. These are separate postings, not one person's raises. The higher levels mix individual-contributor and management roles, so the labels stay neutral.
- Review status
- approved-for-publication
- Reviewed
- 2026-07-27
The remote pay gap depends on what you compare
The same postings point in opposite directions once you control for experience and for where the job was posted.
Based on 72,965 salaried postings.
About 77 percent of the remote postings come from one job board, so remote status and job source are hard to tell apart here. This data cannot give a single reliable number for remote pay.
How this number was produced
- Analysis
- jobs.remote_pay_controls
- Version
- v1
- Snapshot
- 2026-07-27
- Sample size
- 72,965 postings
- Filters
- active salaried postings; compared raw, then within the same stated experience, then within the same job source
- Method
- Median advertised pay for remote versus onsite, then the same comparison holding stated experience constant, then holding the job source constant. Seeker level was not part of the final comparison. About 77 percent of remote postings come from one aggregator, so remote and job source are hard to separate in this data.
- Review status
- approved-for-publication
- Reviewed
- 2026-07-27
Methodology and limits
- Source
- 244,504 active public postings in the Seeker corpus. This is what Seeker tracks, not the whole job market.
- Salary coverage
- 32.5 percent of postings list a salary, and only those appear in the pay figures.
- Currency
- Not standardized. Dollar figures cover US postings only. Other regions are left out of the pay charts.
- Levels
- Seeker sets a level from the title and requirements. The higher levels mix individual-contributor and management roles, so the labels are just Level 0 to 7.
- Remote
- Means the posting is marked remote. As shown above, the pay effect depends on the job source, so no single figure is claimed.
- Advertised, not earned
- All pay figures are what postings advertise, not salaries people receive.
- How it is produced
- The page reads a frozen, reviewed snapshot, not a live query. The snapshot date is a fixed analysis. Each finding keeps a record you can open under its chart.
- Known limits
- Postings can be repeated, out of date, or incomplete. Active listings only. Small samples are flagged.
Still working on
Skill-level results are not here yet. The skill list still mixes real requirements with boilerplate, and the same skill goes by different names, so those numbers are being cleaned up before they go out.