How we aggregate remote jobs

Board-style sources with public APIs (Jobicy, Remote OK, Remotive) are ingested every 30 minutes. Greenhouse and Lever career pages are polled every 2 hours per employer - more frequent for the companies we cover as hubs. We Work Remotely and Hacker News threads are parsed daily.

A listing disappears from RemNavi when its source returns 404, when it has not been seen for 14 consecutive polling cycles, or when the employer marks it closed. The 14-cycle buffer guards against transient source outages producing false negatives.

Every listing is keyed by a stable hash of normalised_company + normalised_title + region. When the same hash appears on multiple sources, we keep the canonical ATS (Greenhouse or Lever) if present, otherwise the earliest-seen source, and we record the other sources as alternates on the listing record.

Normalisation is case-insensitive, strips legal suffixes (Inc., GmbH, Ltd.), collapses whitespace, and maps common title variants (e.g. "Sr." → "Senior", "PM" → "Product Manager") through a small managed dictionary. The dictionary is open in the repo and reviewed manually on every change.

Why you'll see two different totals on the site. The listing count on the homepage, /press/, /press-kit/, and /tools/salary-index/ is the deduplicated, browsable count: canonical postings only (duplicates from the same job on multiple boards excluded, per the dedup process above) plus, for work-mode, everything except listings explicitly classified onsite-only. This is what you'd actually see paging through /jobs/. The /trends/ "Listings tracked" chart intentionally shows a larger number: it's the full historical ingest total, including items not yet deduplicated or classification-pending, tracked day over day since recording began. We report it on its own definition rather than retrofitting the dedup-filtered count onto the historical series, since which duplicates existed on a given past day isn't something we recorded at the time, so recalculating it after the fact isn't possible without breaking the series.

A listing enters the Salary Index only if the source provides a numeric range or a single numeric figure. Free-text salary language ("competitive", "market rate", "DOE") is excluded. We convert every range to USD per year using a daily FX rate; we do not attempt to correct for cost of living at this layer (that's what the Salary Calculator is for).

We report median and range per role group and per seniority band. Groups with fewer than 5 listings in the current window are suppressed to avoid statistical noise. The published snapshot at /tools/salary-index is built at every release and exposes the row-level underlying data via CC BY 4.0.

Limitations we want you to know about. Our sample is biased toward employers who publish salary bands: in practice, that's US-headquartered SaaS, European remote-first companies, and European employers subject to the 2026 EU Pay Transparency Directive. US states with pay transparency laws (CA, CO, NY, WA) are overrepresented in the underlying data. Treat the medians as lower-bound signals of real compensation, not universal industry figures.

The Salary Index snapshot (CSV + JSON) is available at /tools/salary-index. A broader Market Index (source, role, skill, company, geo, and seniority cuts) is at /market-index, with direct JSON and CSV download links. Every listing is also scored on the Real Remote Score rubric. Attribution for any of these: "RemNavi, https://remnavi.com". Commercial reuse is permitted under the same CC BY 4.0 terms.

Formal citation: this Methodology is archived at DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20234690. The State of Remote H1 2026 report is archived at DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20322848.

Individual job listings remain the intellectual property of the source employer and posting platform. Our right to surface them is under fair use for aggregators; we do not store full job descriptions, only the metadata required for discovery and the canonical link back to the source. If you are an employer and would like a listing removed or a source excluded, write to hello@remnavi.com and we will action within 48 hours.