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title: "Retail job postings: seniority, remote share and skills (2026)"
description: "**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/retail"
canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/postings/retail
last_updated: 2026-09-10
---

# Retail job postings: seniority, remote share and skills (2026)

> Live retail job postings measured from JobsPipe's index: <0.5% remote, 31.6% disclose pay, seniority mix and the industries hiring. Shares only, reproducible through the API.

**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/retail

This page reads every active retail posting JobsPipe collects from LinkedIn, Indeed, Y Combinator, Workday, Greenhouse, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Ashby, Lever and Paylocity and reports the mix as shares: who the postings are aimed at, how many say remote or disclose pay, which industries and countries they come from, and how companies of different sizes hire for the function.

<0.5% of these postings are marked remote, 31.6% state a salary or range, the most common seniority label is entry level at 10.7%. Postings with no seniority label are counted in the denominator, so the seniority shares do not sum to one.

## Headline shares

- **Remote:** <0.5%
- **Pay disclosed:** 31.6%

## Seniority stated in the posting

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Entry level | 10.7% |
| Mid level | 0.8% |
| Senior | 1.6% |
| Lead or manager | 2.7% |
| Executive | <0.5% |

## Employer industry (ISIC division)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Retail trade | 21.8% |
| Food service | 8.8% |
| Apparel | 3.5% |
| Motor vehicle trade | 2.1% |
| Wholesale trade | 1.9% |
| Employment and staffing | 1.8% |
| Food manufacturing | 1.1% |
| Chemicals | 0.8% |

## Country

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 53.5% |
| France | 9.0% |
| Canada | 6.1% |
| United Kingdom | 4.8% |
| Australia | 4.3% |
| Italy | 3.3% |
| Brazil | 3.3% |
| Germany | 2.7% |

## Employer size, where known

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| 1-50 employees | 0.7% |
| 51-200 employees | 1.1% |
| 201-1000 employees | 2.5% |
| 1000+ employees | 20.6% |

## Employment type

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Full-time | 61.5% |
| Part-time | 21.1% |
| Internship | <0.5% |

## Method

Denominator: active postings on the ten collected boards, grouped by job function (deduplicated by posting id). Counted on 2026-09-09. Postings are deduplicated by id, filtered to those not yet recorded as closed, and grouped on the field named in each heading. Only shares are published.

Reproduce the underlying rows:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"status":"active","limit":25,"job_title_or":["retail"]}'
```

## FAQ

### What share of retail job postings are remote?

<0.5% of the active postings on this page carry a remote flag. The flag is read from the posting itself, so hybrid roles that never say remote are counted as on-site. Filter the API with remote set to true and the same scope to reproduce the figure.

### How many retail postings disclose salary?

31.6% state a salary or a range in the posting text or structured fields. Disclosure varies more by board and by jurisdiction than by role, so compare the figure with the board-level shares on the sources pages before reading it as a market signal.

### Which industries hire the most retail roles?

By ISIC division, the largest shares are Retail trade (21.8%), Food service (8.8%), Apparel (3.5%). Industry is resolved from the employer's classification where known, and postings without a classification are excluded from this cut.

### Where do these numbers come from?

From JobsPipe's live index of postings on the ten boards it collects, deduplicated by posting id and counted on 2026-09-09. Only shares are published; the underlying counts stay private. Every figure can be reproduced against the JobsPipe API with the filters shown on this page.

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