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Los Angeles

Los Angeles hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in California.

Postings · May 2026−15%3-mo momentum
14
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
10.3333 low3-mo avg: 1622.3333 high
Rank · US
#7of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
64%−9 pts vs US
Share of US postings
3.1%14 of 518
3-Mo momentum
Falling−15% 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
All-time postings
9,577since 2011 · 182 months
−10% YoY2025 vs 2024
676
'22
275
'23
248
'24
224
'25
57
'26
All-time total
9,577182 months
↑ Best year
20181242
↓ Worst full year
2025224
Latest full year
2025−10% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Los Angeles.

Median bands from the 101 Los Angeles postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=9 · need 10
Junior— n=5
Mid— n=2
Senior— n=9
Staff+$193k – $962k n=63

Bar = p25 to p75 · tick on Senior = median. Junior & Mid & Senior shown hatched below the 10-sample floor.

§ 02Work Model

Remote share tracks the US baseline.

Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
70%
−1 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
35%
Hybrid
35%
Onsite-only
30%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
89% rem.
'12
71% rem.
'13
85% rem.
'14
60% rem.
'15
52% rem.
'16
36% rem.
'17
22% rem.
'18
23% rem.
'19
24% rem.
'20
58% rem.
'21
77% rem.
'22
83% rem.
'23
77% rem.
'24
62% rem.
'25
75% rem.
'26
49% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Los Angeles vs US
Los Angeles70% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Python tops Los Angeles's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 190 Los Angeles hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillPython
41mentions↑ 71%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2522% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Python+71%41
02PostgreSQL+117%37
03TypeScript+33%36
04UX/UI+996%34
05C++−21%32
06Kubernetes+1318%22
07Rust−49%22
08React−54%16
09Amazon Web Services (AWS)−20%13
10Go+319%13
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Kubernetes+1318%
  • 02LangChain+1189%
  • 03UX/UI+996%
  • 04YouTube+459%
Cooling↘
  • 01Machine Learning−80%
  • 02React−54%
  • 03Django−53%
  • 04Rust−49%

71% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Los Angeles vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
Los AngelesUS baseline
Data Ml
match
15%
12%
+2 pts1.2×
Design
match
4%
3%
+1 pts1.4×
Engineering
match
66%
69%
−3 pts1.0×
Executive
match
1%
2%
−0 pts0.8×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
+0 pts2.1×
Marketing
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.3×
Operations
match
1%
1%
−0 pts0.7×
Other
over-indexed
6%
3%
+3 pts2.0×
Product
match
5%
4%
+1 pts1.3×
Sales
match
0%
3%
−2 pts0.2×
§ 04Similar Cities

Where else looks like Los Angeles?

Cosine similarity across role mix, work-model split, and skill profile.

CityMatchPosts/moRemote%Sr. median
01
New YorkNew York · US
0.94
13749%$200k02
San FranciscoCalifornia · US
0.93
17057%$190k03
SeattleWashington · US
0.92
2092%$185k04
LondonGB
0.92
5548%$140k05
AustinTexas · US
0.88
17100%$160k

Match score = cosine similarity over (category share, work-model split, top-50 skill share)

About this page

Los Angeles 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.