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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in Utah.

Postings · Jun 2026
0
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJul '25 Jun '26
0 low3-mo avg · 11.3333 high
Rank · US
#26of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
Share of US postings
0.0%
3-Mo momentum
Flat
§ 00Hiring Volume

Pulling back alongside the US baseline.

Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.

Full yearPartial yearAll-time peak
All-time postings
1,135since 2011 · 183 months
−74% YoY2025 vs 2024
57
'22
16
'23
27
'24
7
'25
0
'26
All-time total
1,135183 months
↑ Best year
2018229
↓ Worst full year
20257
Latest full year
2025−74% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Salt Lake City.

Median bands from the 7 Salt Lake City postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=6 · need 10
Senior n=6

Bar = p25 to p75 · tick on Senior = median. Senior shown hatched below the 10-sample floor.

§ 02Work Model

29 points more remote-friendly than the US baseline.

Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
100%
+29 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
100%
Hybrid
0%
Onsite-only
0%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '24
RemoteHybridOnsite
'12
0% rem.
'13
100% rem.
'14
0% rem.
'15
0% rem.
'16
15% rem.
'17
12% rem.
'18
21% rem.
'19
13% rem.
'20
18% rem.
'21
46% rem.
'22
69% rem.
'23
100% rem.
'24
81% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Salt Lake City vs US
Salt Lake City100% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Make tops Salt Lake City's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 5 Salt Lake City hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillMake
3mentions
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUL '2560% of postingsJUN '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Make3
02Node.js+200%3
03TypeScript+20%3
04Playwright2
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending
  • 01Node.js+200%
  • 02TypeScript+20%
Cooling

    100% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Jun 2026)

    Role mix · Salt Lake City vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
    Salt Lake CityUS baseline
    Data Ml
    over-indexed
    31%
    12%
    +18 pts2.5×
    Design
    over-indexed
    8%
    3%
    +5 pts3.0×
    Engineering
    under-indexed
    47%
    69%
    −22 pts0.7×
    Executive
    match
    0%
    2%
    −1 pts0.0×
    Finance Accounting
    match
    0%
    0%
    −0 pts0.0×
    Healthcare
    match
    0%
    0%
    −0 pts0.0×
    Legal Compliance
    match
    0%
    0%
    −0 pts0.0×
    Marketing
    over-indexed
    14%
    3%
    +12 pts5.3×
    Operations
    match
    0%
    1%
    −1 pts0.0×
    Other
    under-indexed
    0%
    3%
    −3 pts0.0×
    Product
    under-indexed
    0%
    4%
    −4 pts0.0×
    Sales
    match
    0%
    3%
    −3 pts0.0×