Austin
A mid-tier US hiring market that punches above its weight in infrastructure and B2B SaaS. Runs noticeably more remote-friendly than coastal peers — a footprint that hardened post-2020 and has not given back.
Climbed faster than the US baseline since the 2023 trough.
Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.
Pays 16% under San Francisco for senior eng.
Median bands from the 151 Austin postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.
Remote share tracks the US baseline.
Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.
An infrastructure and dev-tools city, not a consumer-app one.
Keywords counted across 199 Austin hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
88% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)
Where else looks like Austin?
Cosine similarity across role mix, work-model split, and skill profile.
Austin postings are extracted from monthly HN Who's Hiring? threads using location string matching against a curated city dictionary. Austin postings include the Round Rock and Cedar Park suburbs.
- ·Trust annual totals over single months — monthly counts can be small, and partial years (hatched) cover only part of the calendar.
- ·Compensation bands use a trailing 3-year window; levels appear only when n ≥ 10.
- ·Comparisons against the US baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.