Most "LinkedIn statistics" pages recycle the same unsourced numbers from press releases. We run a jobs tracker that has recorded 8.49 million public LinkedIn job postings across 218 regions since April 2026, with precise posting timestamps on 96% of them. So instead of quoting someone else, we counted.
All numbers below come from that dataset as of September 1, 2026. One honest caveat up front: these are the postings our tracker observes across the regions it scans — a floor, not a census of every posting on LinkedIn.
Roughly 48,000 new postings a day — and Wednesday is the peak
Over the last 30 days we recorded an average of ~48,200 new public postings per day, about 340,000 per week. The weekly rhythm is strong enough to plan around:
| Day (UTC) | Avg. new postings |
|---|---|
| Monday | 49,200 |
| Tuesday | 63,000 |
| Wednesday | 63,800 |
| Thursday | 60,700 |
| Friday | 57,300 |
| Saturday | 35,700 |
| Sunday | 22,200 |
Wednesday posts almost three times the volume of Sunday. If your product watches hiring signals, mid-week is when the firehose runs.
Germany out-posts California
The busiest regions over the last 90 days, by posting volume:
| Region | Postings (90d) |
|---|---|
| Germany | 222,000 |
| California, US | 214,000 |
| Texas, US | 199,000 |
| United Kingdom | 185,000 |
| India | 170,000 |
| France | 159,000 |
| Brazil | 138,000 |
| Florida, US | 137,000 |
| Netherlands | 108,000 |
US states are listed separately because that's how LinkedIn regionalizes them — summed, the US still leads by a wide margin. But Germany as the single busiest region surprises most people we show this to.
Only 1 in 10 postings discloses salary
Across all 90-day postings, 10.1% include a salary range. The spread by region says more than the average:
- China: 48.6% — by far the highest disclosure rate we track.
- Netherlands: 24.7% — the European leader.
- US transparency-law states: Illinois 19.2%, California 18.6%, New Jersey 18.0%, Washington 17.3%, Colorado 14.2%. The laws work, but "must post a range" clearly isn't the same as "everyone does."
Where US salaries are disclosed (last 90 days): the median full-time yearly range is $90,000–$130,000 (n=117k postings), and the median hourly range is $19–$27/hr (n=176k). That hourly pool being larger than the yearly one tells its own story about who discloses.
What's actually being hired
Postings that declare a seniority level break down as: mid-senior 44.6%, entry level 27.2%, associate 19.0%, director 3.4%, internship 3.1%, executive 2.4% (70% of postings declare no level at all — we exclude those rather than guess). By employment type: 82.2% full-time, 8.0% part-time, 4.3% contract, 3.8% internship.
And the single most-posted job title on LinkedIn? Not a software role. It's project manager, with customer service representative, pharmacy technician, and assistant manager close behind. The volume economy on LinkedIn is service and operations work, not tech.
Methodology
Counts come from LinkFetch's continuously updated jobs database: public LinkedIn postings collected across 218 regions since 2026-04-27, deduped by LinkedIn's own job ID, with posting timestamps precise to the minute on 95.7% of rows and full descriptions on effectively all of them. We also record applicant-count time series (683,000 observations so far). Person data is redacted before anything leaves the collection pipeline. Numbers are floors, not totals — a region we don't scan is a posting we don't count.
Want to run your own cuts of this data? The full database is available as a one-time snapshot or live Postgres access — complete records, full descriptions, parsed salaries, queryable the day you buy.