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How common is each benefit, really?

“Remote-first.” “Visa sponsorship.” “Four-day week.” Job seekers search for these as if they’re everywhere, but how often do companies actually put them in the job description? We measured it, by role, across the postings we track.

A benefit only counts here if the company wrote it into the job description itself, not a guess, not a Glassdoor rumor. That makes these numbers conservative: plenty of companies offer remote work or sponsor visas without spelling it out in every posting. But it also makes them honest: this is the floor, the share of roles where the company committed it to writing.

Share of roles disclosing each benefit

Percent of extracted, currently-open roles that state each benefit in the job description (top 12 role categories by volume).

Role Roles tracked Remote-firstHybridVisa sponsorship4-day weekEquity
Software Engineers 1,011 18% 17% 3% 0% 41%
Account Executives 427 17% 29% 2% 53%
Operations 277 18% 20% 1% 37%
Product Managers 267 16% 27% 3% 51%
Forward Deployed Engineers 179 7% 27% 13%
Machine Learning Engineers 169 15% 24% 17% 48%
Engineering Managers 169 11% 30% 3% 44%
Solutions Engineers 153 29% 20% 39%
Sales Development Reps 147 24% 24% 3% 35%
Therapists & Counselors 141 100%
Account Managers 139 14% 27% 1% 30%
Security Engineers 138 17% 19% 5% 36%

A linked percentage opens the companies behind it. Browse all of our benefit-by-role indexes.

Why we publish this

The mega job sites can’t filter by a benefit that only exists in the JD text, so they don’t. We can, because we read the company’s own words. See our methodology for exactly how this is built and refreshed.