What 1.1 million job adverts say this month
TUNAI reads live job adverts in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia around the clock. These are the numbers that stood out, recounted every night.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 from 1,127,000 live adverts56% of US job adverts give no pay figure we could find
Every live advert whose full text we hold, counted once; adverts we only see as a title or a short excerpt are left out. A few state pay only in an attachment we cannot read.
Read 8 Nov 2026 from 721,382 adverts
See the dataNumbers worth knowing
of UK job adverts appear on a Saturday or Sunday, so almost every new advert arrives on a weekday. In the US: 4%.
See the data →Ghost adverts61,000live adverts say they were posted more than a year ago, 6% of those that give a date. The oldest claims 2010.
See the data →AI jobs14%of AI adverts mention a PhD. 16% mention a master's, and 13% say “or equivalent experience”.
See the data →UK vs US pay2.59×A US account manager is advertised at 2.59 times a UK one, in pounds: $121k against £35k.
See the data →Job titles3 of 2,104US job titles containing “Santa” are actually about Santa. The rest are mostly places like Santa Rosa, Santa Fe and Santa Monica.
See the data →Salary transparency5,700US job titles sell a sign-on bonus in the title itself. UK: 3.
See the data →What changed since last month
- Adverts that never close: 38,000 → 61,000
- The widest gap: 2.11× → 2.59×
- Time of day: 2pm to 5pm → 2pm to 5pm
- Not what it sounds like: 3 of 739 → 3 of 2,104
- Buzzwords: 4 → 6
- Paid almost the same: 1× → 1×
- Six months and counting: 76,000 → 120,000
- Posted again and again: 4,300 → 5,200
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