"According to a recent analysis of over one million job postings between January and July from Ladders, a career platform for six-figure salary jobs, those offering salaries of $100,000 or more and that also offer remote or hybrid work plunged 15% in the second quarter of 2025. Only about 6% of high-paying jobs now provide location flexibility-down from a high of 41% in 2022, and just a couple points above the 4% recorded back in pre-pandemic 2019."
""It's definitely an employer's market," says Ladders founder Marc Cenedella. "In 2025, by and large, U.S. and Canadian companies have decided [workers earning six figures or more] are going back to the office." Cenedella adds that while six-figure jobs once represented a small slice of the workforce, the data now applies to a larger proportion of knowledge economy workers, thanks in part to inflation and the growth of the knowledge industry."
Data from over one million job postings between January and July shows that high-paying positions ($100,000+) offering remote or hybrid work fell 15% in the second quarter of 2025. Only about 6% of six-figure roles now offer location flexibility, down from a 41% peak in 2022 and near the 4% pre-pandemic level in 2019. Other platforms show smaller declines: roughly 20% of LinkedIn listings offer hybrid or remote options, while Indeed's fully remote share rose to 10.2% in 2022 and later declined to about 7.9%. Employers are increasingly requiring in-person work as the labor market tightens, and six-figure compensation now covers a larger slice of the professional workforce due to inflation and knowledge-industry growth.
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