City ProfileSan Diego · California · US
San Diego
San Diego hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in California.
Postings · May 2026+100%3-mo momentum
2
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
1 low3-mo avg: 22.6667 high
Rank · US
#13of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
50%−23 pts vs US
Share of US postings
0.4%2 of 518
3-Mo momentum
Rising+100% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume
Climbed faster than the US baseline since the 2025 trough.
Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.
Full yearPartial yearPeak year
§ 01Compensation
Senior pay disclosure is still thin in San Diego.
Median bands from the 19 San Diego postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.
§ 02Work Model
Remote share tracks the US baseline.
Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '25
RemoteHybridOnsite
'1150% rem.
'1250% rem.
'1386% rem.
'1458% rem.
'1539% rem.
'1640% rem.
'1727% rem.
'1818% rem.
'1932% rem.
'2059% rem.
'2196% rem.
'2299% rem.
'2346% rem.
'2435% rem.
'2588% rem.
Trailing 12 months · San Diego vs US
San Diego68% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature
Amazon Web Services (AWS) tops San Diego's skill mentions over the last 12 months.
Keywords counted across 21 San Diego hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
76% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)
Role mix · San Diego vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
San DiegoUS baseline
About this page
San Diego postings are extracted from monthly HN Who's Hiring? threads using location string matching against a curated city dictionary.
Caveats
- ·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.