Research by workbeyond.io., a remote jobs online platform
Key highlights from the workbeyond.io stats below about the remote jobs market, as of Nov 2024:
* 29,144 recent remote jobs, available globally or in specific countries, pay more than USD 100,000 / year
* 13,993 recent remote jobs available within the United States pay more than USD 100,000 / year
* top three locations for remote jobs are: United States, Worldwide and India
* top three cities for hybrid jobs are: London/United Kingdom, NYC/United States and Bangalore/India
* from our previous article the top five
industries hiring remote workers are:
* 4,800+ different industries offer approximately 50,000 remote work opportunities worldwide, posted between mid-Oct / mid-Nov 2024
Curios minds could wonder, when reading news about "more companies mandating 'return to work' policies", if this is a generalized trend. While it is true that some very well-known companies are mandating this policy, things are more nuanced and we can help to shine more light on the topic, based on our extensive global remote jobs dataset. So, let's get started with relevant job market stats for remote jobs, extracted from our remote jobs listings data available online at workbeyond.io.
Nov 2024
| Country | No. of jobs |
| Remote, US | 15,312 |
| Global(anywhere) | 13,018 |
| Remote, IN | 3,267 |
| Remote, BR | 2,346 |
| Remote, GB | 2,300 |
| Remote, CA | 1,786 |
| Remote, DE | 1,208 |
| Remote, MX | 1,086 |
| Remote, PH | 1,054 |
| Remote, PL | 469 |
| Remote, ES | 426 |
| Remote, IE | 331 |
| Remote, FR | 326 |
| Remote, PT | 317 |
| Remote, CO | 264 |
| Remote, AU | 263 |
| Remote, AR | 226 |
| Remote, IT | 183 |
| Remote, NL | 183 |
| Remote, ZA | 162 |
*Note: When the country code is mentioned it means that the remote worker must be physically located within the respective country. For 'global' the location can be anywhere, worldwide.
Our datasets contain recent jobs only, posted by employers in mid-Oct / mid-Nov 2024. If we extend the timeframe the numbers are significantly higher.
As we can see, remote jobs are very present in Nov 2024 in the overall job market. Morevoer, a quick query on our dataset shows that there are 12,518 distinct companies, worldwide, which offer remote jobs. Out of these, 6,618 companies offer remote jobs within the United States. Now let's explore the top 30 hybrid jobs locations (partially remote, requiring some on-site presence), from one of our smaller datasets:
Nov 2024
| Location | No. of jobs |
| London, UK | 268 |
| NYC, US | 214 |
| Bangalore, India | 177 |
| Foster City, CA | 136 |
| Paris, FR | 136 |
| Vilnius | 135 |
| Bengaluru, IN | 130 |
| Hyderabad, IN | 106 |
| Toronto, CA | 105 |
| Mumbai, India | 86 |
| Singapore, Singapore | 77 |
| Hong Kong, SAR | 75 |
| San Francisco, US | 72 |
| Washington, D.C. | 71 |
| Sydney, AU | 70 |
| Bangalore, IN | 67 |
| Taipei, Taiwan | 62 |
| Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 57 |
| Buenos Aires, AR | 52 |
| Bengaluru, IN | 51 |
| Kyiv, Ukraine | 49 |
| Porto, PT | 46 |
| Seoul, KR | 44 |
| Istanbul, TR | 43 |
| Tokyo, JP | 43 |
*Note: Our datasets contain recent jobs only, posted by employers in mid-Oct / mid-Nov 2024. If we extend the timeframe the numbers are significantly higher.
Now, let's get to salary data. Here are the top 100 job salaries and titles, for remote jobs within the United States, per the salary data published in the job posting by the employer (no estimates, no interpolation, just hard data posted by employers themselves in the job descriptions).
| USD | Job title |
| 500,000 | Regional Vice President |
| 500,000 | Account Director |
| 425,000 | Chief Development Officer |
| 400,000 | Staff Engineer GenAI ML |
| 360,000 | Experienced Data Science Manager |
| 350,000 | Strategic Account Executive |
| 350,000 | Sales Manager |
| 346,000 | Executive Director of Social Networks |
| 335,000 | Enterprise Account Executive |
| 325,000 | Chief Credit Officer |
| 325,000 | SVP Finance |
| 320,000 | Sr. Product Manager Fintech |
| 320,000 | Sr. Product Manager: Fintech Disruption & Insurance |
| 315,000 | SVP, General Counsel |
| 313,200 | Head of Policy |
| 310,000 | General Counsel |
| 310,000 | Brand Sales Director |
| 308,000 | Director, Strategic Account Management |
| 304,920 | Principal Engineer, Software |
| 302,000 | Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales |
| 300,000 | Senior Director Project Development |
| 300,000 | Sales Account Executive |
| 300,000 | Sales Account Executive |
| 300,000 | Regional Vice President |
| 300,000 | Director, Revenue Operations |
| 300,000 | Principal Molten Salt Component Specialist |
| 300,000 | Corporate Controller |
| 300,000 | Senior Media Relations & Content Strategy Manager |
| 300,000 | VP of Engineering Operations |
| 300,000 | Director/Sr. Director, Software Product Management |
| 300,000 | Head of Fraud |
| 297,000 | Experienced Software Engineer – ML |
| 297,000 | Experienced Software Engineer – Risk |
| 295,000 | Senior Director, Technology |
| 293,000 | Senior Backend Software Engineer |
| 293,000 | Senior Full Stack Engineer |
| 293,000 | Senior Backend Software Engineer |
| 293,000 | Senior Fullstack Engineer |
| 290,000 | Director, Revenue Operations |
| 288,000 | Head of Software Delivery |
| 285,000 | Senior Account Executive |
| 280,000 | Enterprise Account Executive |
| 280,000 | Principal Software Engineer, Fraud |
| 277,000 | VP of Engineering |
| 275,000 | Account Director, Brand Partnerships |
| 275,000 | Vice President, Marketing |
| 275,000 | Sr. Engineering Manager, Science/ML Platform |
| 275,000 | VP of Legal |
| 275,000 | Intelligent Manufacturing Solutions - Director |
| 273,544 | Senior Staff Perception Software Engineer |
| 267,840 | Privacy & Regulatory Counsel |
| 266,000 | Engineering Manager, Workspaces |
| 265,000 | SVP, Strategy |
| 263,000 | Senior Enterprise Architect Consultant |
| 261,301 | Senior Staff Engineer, Software Autonomy Applications |
| 260,000 | Senior Staff Product Manager, Developer Experience |
| 260,000 | Vice President of Channel Programs |
| 260,000 | Senior Enterprise Account Executive |
| 260,000 | Principal Software Engineer - Distributed Storage |
| 259,900 | Psychiatrist |
| 258,000 | Group Product Manager |
| 258,000 | Staff Software Engineer, Batch Compute |
| 258,000 | Senior Engineering Manager |
| 258,000 | Staff Software Engineer, Realtime Serving |
| 257,040 | People Analytics Lead |
| 257,000 | Director of Product Management |
| 255,960 | Industry Partnerships |
| 255,000 | Industrial Senior Practice Leader |
| 255,000 | Sr. Solutions Engineer |
| 255,000 | Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Networking |
| 255,000 | Vice President, Federation Leadership & Engagement |
| 254,111 | Senior Backend Engineer, Customer Experience |
| 254,111 | Senior Software Engineer, Data Tools |
| 253,000 | Director, Pharmacovigilance Scientist |
| 252,000 | VP, Marketing |
| 251,000 | Software Architect Remote |
| 250,000 | Business Development Leader – Water |
| 250,000 | Manager, Engineering - Data Governance |
| 250,000 | Senior Client Manager – Water |
| 250,000 | Lead Engineer Backend |
| 250,000 | Director, Statistical Programming |
| 250,000 | Senior Director of Life Science Business Development |
| 250,000 | Sr. Solution Consultant |
| 250,000 | Head of Legal |
| 250,000 | Strategic Account Manager |
| 250,000 | Director Product Management - Retail |
| 250,000 | Director eDiscovery/ Information Governance |
| 250,000 | Director of Retail Strategy & Scaling |
| 246,000 | Sr. Staff Engineer - Cloud Ops |
| 245,000 | Senior Software Engineer |
| 244,000 | Mid-Market Account Executive |
| 241,899 | Principal Cloud Architect |
| 241,467 | Principal Product Manager |
| 240,000 | Senior Staff Software Engineer, Voice Intelligence |
| 240,000 | Government Certification Practice Leader |
| 240,000 | Government Account Manager |
| 240,000 | Director of Product Management |
| 240,000 | Head of Engineering |
| 240,000 | Software Architect - Cloud/DevOps |
| 240,000 | Virtual Primary Care Physician |
Note: As of Nov 2024 there are 13,993 remote jobs available in United States paying more than USD 100,000/year.
These listings are available online on workbeyond.io. Please feel free to create an account on workbeyond.io and explore the listings yourself.
How about other regions? Well, here is the data for EU, notably different from the US figures..
| EUR | Job title |
| 230,000 | Account Executive, EMEA |
| 120,000 | Senior Site Reliability Engineer SRE |
| 109,000 | Software Engineer – C++ |
| 91,000 | Sr. Clinical Research Associate |
| 90,660 | SAP Technical Product/Project manager |
| 90,000 | CEO / Chief Executive Officer / Business Partner |
| 89,000 | Technical Solutions Engineer – Data |
| 85,000 | Technical Executive (Accountant) |
| 84,500 | Senior Proposal Specialist |
| 84,000 | AI Engineer |
| 80,000 | Software Engineer I/II/Senior |
| 80,000 | Senior JS Dev |
| 80,000 | Fullstack NextJS Senior |
| 80,000 | Global Resourcing Manager |
| 75,000 | Business Development Executive |
| 75,000 | DevOps Engineer |
| 75,000 | Senior ESG-Consultant |
| 75,000 | Machine Learning Engineer |
| 68,527 | Recruitment Consultant (Construction Industry) |
| 66,000 | Proposal Specialist |
| 63,000 | Senior Front-end Software Engineer DDD & Angular |
| 60,000 | Account Manager |
| 55,000 | Senior Sales Senior Account Executive - German native |
| 53,000 | Software Engineer |
| 50,000 | Head of Customer Experience SE |
| 50,000 | Head of Quality Control - Customer Services SE |
| 45,000 | Head of Customer Experience EE |
| 32,000 | Chargé de dossiers - CDD |
| 22,000 | Customer service key account manager |
| 20,000 | Customer service key account manager |
Salaries are likely higher or different, for other jobs in our dataset, as salary data is not disclosed or readily available in all job postings.
For more details please feel free to create an account on workbeyond.io and explore the listings yourself.
Research by workbeyond.io
Nov 2024
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