New data suggests that high-paying remote positions are almost as rare as they were before the pandemic.

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.

By comparison, roughly 20% of jobs advertised on LinkedIn offer hybrid or remote work options. According to Indeed, fully remote positions advertised on its platform jumped from 2.4% of all postings in 2019 to 10.2% in 2022, but have since

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