Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
People & recruiting: 8,351 open roles, 704 entry level.
Hiring, developing and supporting the people in an organisation — recruiting, HR, learning and payroll.
4,974 of these postings state no level; the entry-level count is over the ones that do, plus any that ask for a year or less and are not titled senior. Pay is the median of posted bands, in USD, only where eight or more roles posted one; 5 posted figures that could not be a year's pay were left out. Only open roles are counted.
The roles, as the postings name them
Open roles and posted pay by role.
| Role | Open roles | Median posted band |
|---|---|---|
| Recruiter | 299 | $116K |
| Manager | 263 | $160K |
| Technical Recruiter | 226 | $143K |
| Director | 210 | $223K |
| Hr Business Partner | 153 | $145K |
| Talent Acquisition Partner | 118 | $97K |
| Mobile Expert | 116 | — (0 of 8 bands) |
| Hr Generalist | 94 | $90K |
| Talent Acquisition Specialist | 90 | $95K |
| Human Resources Specialist | 86 | $97K |
| Human Resources Business Partner | 82 | $108K |
| Recruiting Coordinator | 79 | $79K |
What each pays, on its own page: Technical Recruiter, Hr Business Partner, Talent Acquisition Partner, Hr Generalist, Talent Acquisition Specialist, Human Resources Specialist, Human Resources Business Partner, Recruiting Coordinator, People Partner, People Business Partner, Human Resources Assistant, Hr Manager.
A role is the posting’s own title with its level, shift and schedule set aside, so “Registered Nurse – ICU (Nights)” and “Senior Registered Nurse” are one role. The twelve most posted; pay is the median of posted bands, where eight or more roles posted one.
The skills, as the postings name them
What the postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Continuous Improvement | 1,607 | 19% |
| Candidate Experience | 1,326 | 18% |
| Spreadsheet Analysis | 1,277 | 27% |
| Employee Relations | 1,250 | 10% |
| Performance Management | 1,233 | 7% |
| Customer Service | 1,116 | 18% |
| HRIS Systems | 1,101 | 10% |
| Payroll Processing | 1,080 | 11% |
| Workforce Planning | 953 | 3% |
| Project Management | 930 | 8% |
| Applicant Tracking Systems | 924 | 9% |
| Change Management | 887 | 4% |
A count of open postings naming each skill, the twelve most named; “at entry” is the share of the 704 entry-level postings that name it. Never a trend, never a score of you. Which of these you already have, and what you would learn first, is on your CareerVersion.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTERN | 278 | $54K | $51K–$83K |
| JUNIOR | 247 | $80K | $58K–$92K |
| MID | 67 | $92K | $83K–$114K |
| SENIOR | 1,054 | $140K | $107K–$165K |
| STAFF | 126 | $169K | $127K–$185K |
| PRINCIPAL | 87 | $150K | $118K–$189K |
| MANAGEMENT | 1,518 | $164K | $124K–$206K |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band; the middle half is the twenty-fifth to seventy-fifth percentile of those bands.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| City of New York | 225 | 10 |
| Tmobile | 177 | 28 |
| Target | 145 | 1 |
| Bosch Group | 123 | 38 |
| Anyone AI | 88 | — |
| Anduril Industries | 87 | 4 |
| Slate | 74 | — |
| SpaceX | 66 | 29 |
| Capital One | 65 | 4 |
| Thermofisher | 62 | 6 |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The twelve with the most open roles in this career tonight; “entry level” is how many of those ask for no prior experience.
Where the work is
9% of open people & recruiting roles are remote.
- Remote9%766 roles
- Hybrid6%532 roles
- On site69%5,788 roles
- Not stated15%1,265 roles
As the boards state it. Nothing in the postings supports a city-level figure, so none is given.
How this was counted
Every figure here is counted from 8,351 open postings read from 1,736 employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model: a level shows a median only where eight or more postings carried one, and 3,179 of these postings did. 5 posted bands whose midpoint could not be a year's pay in US dollars were left out of every figure. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so one role is one row. The same counts as Markdown are at facts.md.
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Counted October 17, 2026 from 8,351 open postings; refreshed nightly. Facts as Markdown: facts.md.