Olive Jobs Reports
What real job postings reveal
We index millions of employer job postings. Periodically we'll publish what the data shows — from which platforms employers hire on to how many roles disclose their pay. Every figure is scoped to the full set of active postings on a stated date, with the method shown in the open.
Most In-Demand Skills: What Employers Actually Require
Across 2.4 million active job postings: communication is the most-required skill, half of postings name no degree, and among those stating a minimum the median wants four years' experience.
As of 2026-08-01The Remote Work Reality: 83% of Job Postings Are Onsite
Work-location policy across 2.4 million active job postings: 83.3% onsite, 8.9% hybrid, 7.7% fully remote — rising to 18.4% fully remote in tech-industry postings and falling under 1% in retail and food service.
As of 2026-08-01Pay Transparency by State: Who Actually Posts Salaries
Salary-disclosure rates by US state, from 2.4 million active job postings (85.6% US; 64% of US postings disclose) — and, among the 30 states with the most postings, the stark gap between those with a pay-range-in-posting law (82–90%) and the rest (42–72%).
How these reports are made
Every figure comes from Olive's own index of active job postings — the same live corpus behind the job search, kept current as roles open and close. Nothing here is a survey, a panel, or a forecast: it is a count of what employers were advertising on a particular day.
When we publish, we run the aggregation over the full active index rather than a convenience sample, freeze the result against a stated date, and print that date on the report. The current set covers 2,382,420 active postings from 17,095 distinct employers, dated August 1, 2026. It spans a broad cross-section of employers and industries across the US economy rather than any single sector, so the picture isn't a tech-only one.
The corpus keeps moving, and the reports are refreshed against it. When a number changes, the as-of date changes with it — you should never have to guess how old a figure is.
What the numbers are — and aren't
We count postings, not people and not unique jobs. The same role can appear more than once, and we say so rather than implying a cleaner denominator than we have. The large majority of the corpus arrives through a single upstream aggregator that re-publishes employer openings nationwide, and we don't de-duplicate across sources, so a sample size is a count of records — never read it as a count of distinct jobs available. The shares are what the reports are about; the raw total is scope, not a finding.
Fields read out of posting text — work-location policy, required skills, degree and experience minimums — carry that uncertainty openly, and a posting that states no requirement is counted as “none stated,” never as zero. Every report ends with a methodology box spelling out the scope and the caveats for that particular cut.
Free to cite
Nothing here is gated and there is no form in front of it. Journalists, researchers, and career-services teams are welcome to quote the figures with attribution to Olive Jobs and the report's as-of date — each report carries a ready-made citation line, and a way to ask for a cut of the data we haven't published.