Est. 2012Vol. 174 · Published Monthly

The Hiring Index

Dateline
APR 18, 2026
Current: March 2026
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An independent, data-driven chronicle of the monthly “Who is hiring?” threads on Hacker News. Each dispatch counts postings, extracts compensation, and traces where engineering hiring is moving — one thread, one month, at a time.

§ 01Latest Dispatch
717jobs
MoM↓ 16%
YoY↓ 3%
Pay band160k–230k
Remote46%
Visa3%
Senior+54%
Trend · last 6 monthsN=6
OCTNOVDECJANFEBMAR
§ 02Recent Dispatches
SCALE 0 — 877
§ 03Annual Archive
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