Last updated: October 10, 2026

For reporters and researchers

Every number here is free to quote. Please link to the page you used and name Second Summit. We update monthly and keep every edition so you can check a figure after the fact.

Headline findings, October 2026

• Of 329 employers with postings both in states that require pay ranges and in states that do not (100 largest cities), 142 list pay at least 10 points more often in the states that require it, 171 behave about the same in both, and 16 list it less often. Together their postings list a range 59.5% of the time in the first group of states and 24.7% in the second.
• San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont leads the metro areas we can publish on posted pay (73.7% of postings list a range); Lakeland-Winter Haven is lowest (3.4%).
• Posted pay for software developers is above the official median wage in 17 of 19 metro areas, by as much as 76.3% in Pittsburgh.
• San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont has the largest share of remote postings (21.5%).
• In Harrisburg-Carlisle, 49.4% of open postings have been listed more than 60 days; in Louisville/Jefferson County it is 12.6%.

How to cite

Second Summit, Job market data by city and metro area, October 2026. https://secondsummit.ai/jobs-data/ (data license CC BY 4.0).

What each measure means

Pay listed

Share of open postings that include a pay range.

Median posted pay

The middle of the range midpoints in postings that list pay, as a yearly amount (hourly pay times 2,080 hours). Placeholders and ambiguous figures are discarded.

Remote

Postings marked remote, or described as remote with a location in the area.

Open more than 60 days

Share of open postings whose first listing date is more than 60 days old.

Entry level

Postings whose titles mark intern, junior or entry-level roles.

Metro area

Census Bureau 2023 metropolitan statistical areas. A place belongs to a metro area through its county.

Editions

2026-10-10. Monthly CSV and JSON downloads are linked from each page.

Custom cuts and interviews

We can pull a city, an industry or an employer-size cut for a story, and explain the method on the record. Email support@secondsummit.ai.

What this data is not

It describes the employers whose career pages we read (7678 this month), not every job in a market. We say so on every page, and we publish an area only when the sample passes the checks on the methodology page.