City ProfileBoulder · Colorado · US
Boulder
Boulder hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in Colorado.
Postings · May 2026−27%3-mo momentum
3
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
2 low3-mo avg: 610 high
Rank · US
#12of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%+27 pts vs US
Share of US postings
0.7%3 of 518
3-Mo momentum
Falling−27% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume
Pulling back alongside the US baseline.
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 Boulder.
Median bands from the 8 Boulder postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.
§ 02Work Model
29 points more remote-friendly than 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 held the line through '24–'26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'110% rem.
'1237% rem.
'1389% rem.
'1486% rem.
'1537% rem.
'1654% rem.
'1724% rem.
'1833% rem.
'1928% rem.
'2050% rem.
'2189% rem.
'2285% rem.
'2381% rem.
'24100% rem.
'25100% rem.
'26100% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Boulder vs US
Boulder100% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature
Cockroachdb tops Boulder's skill mentions over the last 12 months.
Keywords counted across 76 Boulder hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.
96% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)
Role mix · Boulder vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
BoulderUS baseline
About this page
Boulder 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.