SalaryCube Data Lab
Monthly reports on what US employers are advertising for pay
Every Data Lab figure is advertised pay in US employer job postings, computed from the job-postings layer of Bigfoot Live. It is what employers are offering, not what current employees are paid, and nothing in it is a forecast. Each release covers a 90-day window compared with the 90 days before it, is written for HR and compensation professionals, and publishes every number with its posting and employer counts so it can be checked and cited.
What are the latest Data Lab numbers?
Release 2026-08: 90 days ending August 24, 2026, 828,050 deduplicated pay-bearing postings from 85,442 employers. Methodology version 2026.09-v1.
- Median advertised base pay, US
- $74,340
- 828,050 postings, 85,442 employers
- Matched-title change vs prior 90 days
- +0.5%
- 408 titles compared like for like
- Postings advertising a true range
- 71.1%
- 28.9% list a single rate
- Postings quoting an hourly or periodic rate
- 49.5%
- annualized at 2,080 hours
- Remote share of advertised jobs
- 28.8%
- remote advertises +35.8% vs onsite
- New pay-bearing postings, last 30 days
- 133,893
- latest ingest August 24, 2026
Advertised pay in US employer job postings, from the job-postings layer of Bigfoot Live. No statistic is published from fewer than 30 postings and 5 employers, and no single employer contributes more than half of any published cell. Definitions are version-stamped on the data methodology page.
Which Data Lab reports have been released?
One report a month, published in the first week from the prior month's ingest cut. Newest first.
How should I cite a Data Lab figure?
Cite as
SalaryCube Data Lab, "US Advertised Pay Report, [Month Year]," salarycube.com/data-lab
Figures may be republished with attribution and a link to this page or to the report they come from. Please quote them as advertised pay in job postings, keep the posting and employer counts with any cell you reuse, and do not present them as what employees are paid. Journalists and researchers who need cuts not shown in a report can reach us through the contact page.
How are these numbers defined, and how do I benchmark against the same data?
Read the definitions
Every statistic in a release has a written, version-stamped definition: the window, the dedup and outlier rules, the floors below which a cell is not published, and what the figure can and cannot tell you.
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