The market, measured.
Pay transparency, salary trends, posting churn and the slow death of the rockstar - straight from the postings.
Salary transparency & median pay
% of postings disclosing any pay
Median yearly pay, all roles
Frontend vs backend · median pay
Frontend currently pays -22% vs backend ($133k vs $170k).
Time off · how generous is PTO?
Median disclosed time off, normalized to workdays · 0% of postings with PTO data offer unlimited · 1% of postings disclose any
Top paying companies · last 90 days
- 1
Interaction Design Foundation—$380k(3)
- 2
Anthropic—$363k(11)
- 3
HubSpot—$311k(4)
- 4
Reddit—$290k(8)
- 5
Zocdoc—$240k(3)
- 6
LaunchDarkly—$228k(4)
- 7
Airbnb—$224k(6)
- 8
Maven Clinic—$223k(3)
Median yearly-normalized pay across live postings; companies need at least 3 disclosed salaries to rank. Numbers in parentheses are salary samples.
Where the jobs come from · 2026-08
Posting churn · how long jobs stay live
Bars: postings that vanished that month. Labels: median days live before disappearing. Fast churn = hot market.
Buzzword decay · culture over hype
How this works
Pay disclosure counts postings that include any parsed salary; medians normalize hourly, daily and monthly figures to yearly and drop values that cannot be parsed with confidence.
Churn is measured by diffing live postings nightly - when a posting disappears, its full lifetime is recorded. Deleted postings leave no trace, so churn history starts when tracking began.
Buzzwords are counted per posting: rockstar/ninja/10x wording versus inclusive/collaborative language, as a share of all postings that month.
PTO numbers come from parsed time-off statements in posting text; weeks and months are converted to workdays, "unlimited PTO" is tracked separately so it can't skew the median.
Top paying companies are ranked from live postings over the last 90 days - medians need at least 3 disclosed salaries per company, so quiet posters stay out of the ranking. The list shifts as postings expire.