Hiring report

How these numbers are made

• New means first seen by the Weavenly job index. Every 8 hours the index reads the public job boards of companies on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Workday and other systems (how the index works). It doesn’t read job sites like LinkedIn or Indeed, so this is a large sample of company job boards, not the whole market.
• A week runs Monday to Sunday (UTC). The report is built the Monday after, from the index as it stands then: a job that opened and closed before that Monday isn’t counted.
• Only boards the index read before the week began count. When the index starts reading a board, every job open on it is new to the index, though most were posted earlier. Those boards and their jobs are shown apart and left out of every number; the week after, they count like the others.
• The change against the week before uses only boards counted in both weeks, so more boards in the index don’t look like more hiring.
• If the index published nothing for some days, the jobs it would have seen then count on the next day it published, sometimes in the next week. The report names those days.
• Each job counts once, in the first area its title matches (a “UI Engineer” counts in design). Other roles are titles that match no area: retail, healthcare, hospitality, trades and more.
• US states come from the place a job names, read the way the app reads it. Many remote US jobs name no state.
• Remote is the share of jobs that say remote among those that say remote, hybrid or on-site. A job that names a place and no remote or hybrid word counts as on-site.
• Pay counts only on the systems whose job lists carry it. Other systems keep pay in the job description, which the index doesn’t read.
• The H-1B share is a match by employer name: a job’s company finds an employer in the U.S. Department of Labor’s certified H-1B filings the same way the Weavenly app does. That is the same name, a trade name the employer files under, or the name plus a word like “Technologies” or “Labs” when that employer files in a state where the company hires. A company that files under another legal name is missed, and now and then a match is another company with the same name.
• Companies are grouped by name the way the H-1B data groups them: “Acme” and “Acme, Inc.” are one.

What they can’t tell you

• These are postings, not hires. One posting can be for several people, and some stay open for months.
• The mix follows the companies that use the systems the index reads. It isn’t a picture of the whole economy.
• Past H-1B filings are no promise of sponsorship for a job today, and the rules have changed: H-1B rules now.

The data

The numbers are published as data: report/index.json lists every week, with one file per week next to it. A week, once published, keeps its page.