What the remote job market looks like right now.

Most remote jobs now tell you the salary

You shouldn’t have to get to the third interview to find out what a job pays, and more and more, you don’t. Two out of three jobs on Jobspresso (67%) list a salary range up front.

That number hides a big gap, though. If the job is open to people in the United States, there’s an 88% chance it lists pay. For Europe it drops to 24%, and for Asia-Pacific to 9%. The reason is mostly legal: several US states now require salary ranges in job postings, and companies have carried the habit across their US listings.

What to do with this: if a listing doesn’t show pay, it’s fair to ask in your first conversation. Companies that post ranges elsewhere usually have one for your role too.

So what do remote jobs pay?

Among the 425 jobs that list an annual range in US dollars, the typical one sits around $168,000 (we take the middle of each range). Half of them fall between $125,000 and $212,000, and nearly a third are at $200,000 or more.

Those are high numbers, and there’s a reason: remote hiring leans senior. More on that below.

Pay varies a lot by field:

* Based on fewer than 20 salary listings, so take these as a rough guide. Some jobs sit in more than one field.

Where you live still matters

“Remote” rarely means “anywhere”. Most companies can only hire in countries where they’re set up to employ people, so every listing on Jobspresso says where you need to be.

A job can be open in more than one place, so these add up to more than 100%.

A few things stand out:

• About one in seven jobs is truly work-from-anywhere. If that’s what you need, engineering is your best bet: 24% of engineering roles are open worldwide. Sales and finance are the hardest, at about one in twenty.
• Canadians, look at US companies. Half of the jobs open to people in Canada (78 of 153) come from employers hiring across both countries.
• Outside North America, the pool is smaller but real. Europe, the UK and Asia-Pacific together account for about one in five listings, plus everything marked worldwide.

What kinds of jobs are out there

Engineering is the biggest slice, at about a quarter of all open roles. But three in four remote jobs aren’t engineering: sales (13%) and customer support (12%) come next, followed by product, marketing and operations at around 10% each.

Almost all of it is full-time work. 96% of open roles are full-time positions, and only 4% are contracts. If you’ve been picturing remote work as mostly freelance gigs, the market has moved on.

The catch: it’s a senior market

Here’s the part that’s harder to hear if you’re early in your career. Going by job titles, more than half of open roles are senior or above: 28% are lead or manager positions, 16% are senior, 7% are staff or principal and 5% are director level or higher. Fewer than 5% are clearly entry-level or junior.

That doesn’t mean there’s nothing for you if you’re starting out. About four in ten listings don’t name a level at all, and customer support, writing and AI training roles are where we most often see openings that don’t ask for years of experience.

Who’s hiring the most

But don’t only watch the big names. More than half of the companies hiring (171 of 312) have just one open role, and those are often the listings with the least competition.

One more thing worth knowing: about two in three jobs are at companies that are fully remote or remote-first. That matters, because being the one remote person on an office team is a very different job from working somewhere built for it. On Jobspresso, those companies carry a Remote Culture badge.