For the first time ever, the city with the most high paying jobs available isn’t a city — it’s remote work. Ladders, Inc. analyzes data from 50,000 North American employers weekly. The most recent data shows when it comes to six-figure jobs, your city is now a state of mind.
Ladders data showed in North America there are more than 80,000 remote jobs currently paying at least $100,000. The runner-up, San Francisco has about 69,000 six-figure jobs available. That’s about 11,500 fewer high-paying jobs available than there are remotely. New York with about 65,000 high-paying jobs, Boston with about 41,000, and Washington D.C., with about 37,000, round out the top five.
For years these cities have offered some of the most six-figure jobs. It will be interesting to see how the increase in remote work and relocations from urban centers to more suburban and rural communities disrupt that over the next few years.
North American cities with the most six-figure jobs available
1. Virtual / Remote | 80,360 |
2. San Francisco | 68,777 |
3. New York | 64,681 |
4. Boston | 40,691 |
5. Washington, DC | 36,926 |
6. Los Angeles | 34,965 |
7. Chicago | 31,403 |
8. Dallas | 27,334 |
9. Atlanta | 24,971 |
10. Seattle | 22,665 |
11. Philadelphia | 20,901 |
12. Austin | 19,997 |
13. Denver | 17,861 |
14. Minneapolis | 14,526 |
15. Toronto, ON | 13,622 |
Remote work at Ladders
Ladders is a strong proponent of remote work. Our 145 staff members have all worked remotely since the pandemic started and will continue to do so indefinitely. I gave up the business’s Manhattan office space so everyone can work from anywhere. The Ladders team has excelled working remotely. When you trust your team and can count on them to be professionals, it’s nice to be able to provide the flexibility that allows them an excellent work-life balance.
While we know remote work opportunities are surging now and will likely be popular as the pandemic continues, this new data leads to new questions. With remote work becoming the largest city in the US, there are a lot of interesting questions for our near future. Will this be a boomtown that disappears? Is this truly the beginning of a long-term trend away from in-person work? How will this change impact our families, our lives, our shopping, our highways? Time will tell.