States with pay range laws
80% of postings show pay
States without them
37% of postings show pay
Postings show pay more than twice as often in states with pay laws
80% of US job postings in states with a statewide pay range law show pay, against 37% in states without one. Across all 720,122 postings, 55% show pay.
| State | Pay law | Postings | Show pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | Yes | 41,637 | 84% |
| Washington | Yes | 14,519 | 83% |
| Massachusetts | Yes | 22,912 | 82% |
| California | Yes | 82,484 | 80% |
| Colorado | Yes | 13,908 | 80% |
| New Jersey | Yes | 17,221 | 80% |
| Minnesota | Yes | 11,288 | 79% |
| Illinois | Yes | 25,855 | 76% |
| Maryland | Yes | 14,131 | 75% |
| Virginia | Yes | 25,188 | 75% |
| Ohio | No | 23,966 | 46% |
| Arizona | No | 13,757 | 45% |
| North Carolina | No | 24,276 | 41% |
| Wisconsin | No | 12,297 | 40% |
| Indiana | No | 12,983 | 39% |
| Pennsylvania | No | 27,003 | 38% |
| Missouri | No | 12,310 | 37% |
| Texas | No | 60,356 | 37% |
| Florida | No | 37,450 | 36% |
| Tennessee | No | 14,233 | 35% |
| Michigan | No | 15,639 | 34% |
| South Carolina | No | 11,452 | 31% |
| Georgia | No | 24,796 | 30% |
| Alabama | No | 11,560 | 29% |
The typical salary range is $40,000 wide
The median annual salary range in a US job posting is $40,000 wide, and its top sits 36% above its bottom. 45% of ranges have a top at least 40% above the bottom, and 8% have a top at least double the bottom.
More than a quarter of open postings are over 90 days old
The median active job posting went up 36 days ago. 28% are more than 90 days old, 14% are more than 180 days old, and 8% are more than a year old. An old date does not prove a role is fake, since some employers hire for the same role all year. Here is how to spot a ghost job.
About one in seven postings is remote or hybrid
7% of US job postings are remote and 7% are hybrid. These are floors, because a posting that does not state its setup counts as onsite.
Method
- Sample: 720,122 active US postings Yara read from employer applicant tracking systems such as Workday, Greenhouse, Ashby and Lever, as of October 30, 2026.
- Each company, title and location counts once. Postings confirmed closed or duplicated are removed.
- Job boards are left out, because their pay can be an estimate and their dates can reset on a repost. Reposts on employer systems can still reset a date, so the ages here can run low.
- Shows pay means a US dollar salary or hourly rate was read from the posting. Range figures use 177,302 annual ranges with a bottom of at least $20,000.
- Age uses the 714,509 postings with a date.
- Pay law states: California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia and Washington. States are read from the posting location. Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Nevada and Rhode Island are left out of the comparison because their laws differ or start later, as are postings with no state. Law status follows the GovDocs law tracker.
- The comparison shows a gap, not proof the law caused it. Multistate employers often show pay everywhere, which may narrow it.
- Pay and work setup are parsed by rules. On a hand-checked set of 200 postings, pay was about 94.5% accurate and work setup 96.5%.
Cite this report
Yara, "What 720,122 US Job Postings Show About Pay," October 30, 2026, yara.so/research/job-postings.
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