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    "title": "Remote job availability and compensation",
    "summary": "Remote openings, hiring velocity, location restrictions, role mix, seniority, skills, and salary transparency from WFH.team's job inventory.",
    "category": "job_market",
    "category_label": "Job market",
    "source_kind": "first_party",
    "source_name": "WFH.team Job Market",
    "source_url": "https://wfh.team/remote-job-market",
    "update_frequency": "Daily",
    "geographic_scope": "Worldwide",
    "methodology": "Daily snapshots aggregate confirmed remote listings collected by WFH.team. A listing must be active in the report window and pass the site's remote-work confirmation rules.",
    "limitations": "The inventory reflects WFH.team sources rather than every remote opening. Employer wording and source coverage can change over time.",
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      "country",
      "timezone",
      "seniority",
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    "published_at": "2026-09-17 12:45:50.361678+00:00",
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    "headline": "11,839 active remote jobs in the latest 30-day window",
    "change_summary": "New-job volume changed +27.3% from the previous window; 49.9% of active listings include salary data.",
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    "revision_note": "Initial publication",
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            {
              "label": "America/Denver",
              "percent": 6.2,
              "active_jobs": 732
            },
            {
              "label": "America/Toronto",
              "percent": 3.7,
              "active_jobs": 439
            },
            {
              "label": "US timezones",
              "percent": 3.7,
              "active_jobs": 435
            },
            {
              "label": "Europe/London",
              "percent": 2.9,
              "active_jobs": 338
            },
            {
              "label": "America/Vancouver",
              "percent": 2.7,
              "active_jobs": 319
            },
            {
              "label": "EST",
              "percent": 2.3,
              "active_jobs": 275
            },
            {
              "label": "America/Edmonton",
              "percent": 2.2,
              "active_jobs": 260
            },
            {
              "label": "PST",
              "percent": 2.1,
              "active_jobs": 251
            },
            {
              "label": "US/Eastern",
              "percent": 2.0,
              "active_jobs": 232
            }
          ],
          "label": "By timezone"
        },
        {
          "key": "salary_band",
          "rows": [
            {
              "label": "Under $75k",
              "percent": 13.2,
              "active_jobs": 779
            },
            {
              "label": "$75k-$99k",
              "percent": 9.9,
              "active_jobs": 587
            },
            {
              "label": "$100k-$149k",
              "percent": 22.9,
              "active_jobs": 1352
            },
            {
              "label": "$150k-$199k",
              "percent": 24.9,
              "active_jobs": 1469
            },
            {
              "label": "$200k+",
              "percent": 29.1,
              "active_jobs": 1720
            }
          ],
          "label": "By salary band"
        }
      ],
      "schema_version": 1
    }
  },
  "citation": "Source: WFH.team, Remote job availability and compensation, 2026-09-17, revision 1 (https://wfh.team/research/datasets/remote-job-market/2026-09-17)."
}