Recruiter leads the field
Recruiter is the most in-demand people & recruiting role (170 open, 18% of the field), followed by People Operations Manager (165).
People & Recruiting · State of the market
State of the People & Recruiting job market.
A live read on people & recruiting hiring, built from 919 open roles across 281 companies - the 8th-largest field we track, and 2% of everything open. Updated hourly from public job postings.
Synced from public job postings · snapshot September 2026
919
Open roles
+103
Posted this week
281
Companies hiring
$134k
Median base, where disclosed
What the data says
Four things the listings tell us
There are 919 open people & recruiting roles across 281 companies on LandEarly right now, with 103 posted in the past week. Senior-level roles make up 43% of the openings, and 56% of roles that specify a work model are fully remote.
Weighted toward senior experience
43% of open people & recruiting roles read as senior-level. Entry-level (intern + junior) roles are 13% - a signal of how open this field is to early-career candidates.
A remote-friendly field
Of people & recruiting roles that specify a work model, 56% are fully remote and 15% are hybrid. (Many listings don't declare one - this is the share among those that do.)
Companies hiring right now
Remote is the most active employer in people & recruiting (54 open roles, 6% of the field), but the openings are spread across 281 companies in total.
Where the demand is
One field, 12 different jobs
“People & Recruiting” is a bucket, not a job. It rolls up 12 titles that share a craft but not a day - different scope, different level, different pay band. Which title you're chasing is the first cut worth making.
Open roles by title
Share of 919 listingsExperience level
All open rolesIntern3%
Junior10%
Mid39%
Senior43%
Staff<1%
Principal1%
Executive4%
Read off each posting at ingest, not a field employers fill in - so this is a share of all 919 open roles, with nothing left out.
Work model
Where declaredOn-site 29%Hybrid 15%Remote 56%
Only 462 of 919 people & recruiting listings declare a work model. These shares cover those, and no others.
Freshness
What’s open, by the week it posted
How old the live people & recruiting pipeline is - the window where applying early still puts you in front of a human instead of a stack.
Jun 22This week
+103
people & recruiting roles posted in the last seven days, across 281 employers - 11% of everything open in the field.
Each bar is the open roles posted that week, not a count of everything posted then: roles that have since closed are gone from it, so older weeks read lighter by design. The window starts when we began ingesting people & recruiting listings, because a week-by-week series that ran further back would measure our board coverage rather than the market. 24 listings carry no posting date and sit out of this chart.
Pay, where disclosed
Base salary, from listings that state one
Base only. Bonus, commission and equity are real money but listings describe them too inconsistently to compare, so they stay out of the maths rather than inflate it.
25th percentile
$82k
The bottom of the middle 50%
Median
$134k
Half of priced listings pay more
75th percentile
$175k
Top of the middle 50%
$82k$134k$175k
What the number is
Computed from the 294 open people & recruiting listings that state an annual base range - one midpoint per listing. The other 625 state none, and are not estimated in.
Recruiter salary guideWho's hiring, and where
281 companies, 10 metros
Most active employers
Open people & recruiting roles
Top locations
Open people & recruiting rolesSan Francisco, CA133
New York, NY100
Chicago, IL27
Seattle, WA14
Stanford, CA12
Boston, MA9
Austin, TX8
Coral Gables, FL7
Denver, CO7
Los Angeles, CA6
Employers write locations as free text, so every spelling of a city is resolved to one market before it’s counted. A listing naming several markets counts in each, so these don’t sum to the field. The 533 that name no city - remote, “Hybrid”, a campus or a building - sit out entirely rather than get attributed to one.
Methodology
How we compute this
Short version: we count listings, we don't model them. Where the data is thin, the page says so instead of guessing.
Counted, not estimated
Every figure comes from the 919 active people & recruiting listings we track across 12 applicant-tracking systems, ingested hourly from public job boards. A role that closes this morning drops out this afternoon.
Shares state their own denominator
Work-model percentages cover only the 462 listings that declare one. Experience level is read off every posting at ingest, so those shares cover the whole field. We’d rather show the smaller base than fill the gap.
A field rolls up related titles
People & Recruiting covers Recruiter, People Operations Manager, HR Business Partner and 9 more titles. A posting joins a title when its own text describes that job - the roll-up is on the classified role, never on a keyword in the headline.
FAQ
Common questions
How many people & recruiting jobs are open right now?
919 as of September 2026, across 281 companies, with 103 posted in the last seven days. The count is recomputed every hour and roles that close drop out the same day.
Which people & recruiting roles are most in demand?
Recruiter (170 open), People Operations Manager (165 open), and HR Business Partner (130 open) - out of 12 people & recruiting titles carrying at least one open role today.
Are people & recruiting jobs remote?
Of the 462 people & recruiting listings that declare a work model, 56% are fully remote, 15% hybrid and 29% on-site. Most listings never say, so this is the share among those that do - not of the whole field.
What does a people & recruiting job pay?
Median disclosed base is $134k, with the middle 50% between $82k and $175k. That is base only, computed from the 294 open people & recruiting listings that state an annual range - bonus, commission and equity are excluded because listings describe them too inconsistently to compare.
What experience level are people & recruiting jobs?
43% of open people & recruiting roles read as senior-level, and 13% are entry-level (intern or junior). The level is read off each posting when we ingest it, so every open role is counted here.
Other fields
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