Est. 2012Vol. 179 · Published Monthly

The Hiring Index

Dateline
SEP 05, 2026
Current: August 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
430jobs
MoM↓ 18%
YoY↓ 40%
Pay band150k–227k
Remote47%
Visa3%
Senior+57%
Trend · last 6 monthsN=6
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§ 02Recent Dispatches
SCALE 0 — 745
§ 03Annual Archive
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