Market
Hiring difficulty
How hard a hire is in a city: how many live ads compete for each job seeker in a family, and how long ads stay up before they come down.
What you see
- Live ads: ads published now in that family and city, gigs and demo listings excluded.
- Seekers here: job seekers with a confirmed findjobs fit profile who named that family and that city.
- Ads per seeker: the two divided. Thirty means thirty open ads for every one profile; three means a crowded field of candidates.
- Days a closed ad stayed up: the median life of ads in that family that have already come down, counted since 26 August 2026.
- Say the pay: the share of live ads that state a salary.
How to read it
A high ads-per-seeker number means employers compete for few people: expect to pay above the middle and to wait. A low number means candidates compete for few roles: you can choose. The days column tells you how long comparable ads stay up, which is a fair guess at how long yours will.
Honest limits
- Seekers are counted from the findjobs pool, not the whole country. A family with five profiles shows no ratio.
- Days are shown only for families with at least twenty closed ads since 26 August.
- An ad that came down may have been filled, or withdrawn. We cannot tell the two apart; on the whole, most are filled.
Counting
Counts are before cross-board de-duplication: about one ad in ten is the same job on two boards, so ratios are slightly high across every family in the same way. Figures are recomputed every half hour.