The Dreamwork Job Index
One view of how much of the job market Dreamwork has indexed, and a separate view of what is hiring now.
Keeping coverage and active-market signals separate makes both numbers more useful—and prevents corpus maintenance from being mistaken for a sudden change in the labor market.
Dreamwork continuously discovers roles from employer career sites and supported hiring platforms. The Research company index currently includes 4,143,095 jobs indexed and 792,976 eligible roles across 43,193 employers hiring now.
4,143,095 jobs indexed; 792,976 eligible roles across 43,193 employers hiring now.
How we count
Active jobs is the number of listings marked active in Dreamwork. Research, the Jobs admin page, and business reports read the same stored count, refreshed every 15 minutes. It includes listings awaiting processing and duplicate reconciliation. The observation time accompanies the count.
Jobs indexed is cumulative coverage: every job record Dreamwork has discovered in the selected scope. The growth chart is built from each record's creation date, so every point uses the same definition. It measures the reach of the Dreamwork corpus, not the number of jobs open on that day.
Eligible roles is the subset used for company analysis. A role must still be active, canonical, usable, within its stated validity window, and recently seen at its source. Roles leave this count when they close, expire, become stale, or are consolidated as duplicates. That number can rise or fall independently of cumulative coverage.
Current market signal compares employer-level active-role movement over the last week. We show it separately because crawler coverage, corpus cleanup, and labor demand are different phenomena.
Why we track it
Aggregate hiring figures from BLS reports, LinkedIn, or public earnings calls smooth over the places where the interesting things actually happen. The companies recruiting frontier AI researchers, rebuilding the defense industrial base, or writing the next chapter of fintech don't move in lockstep with the broader labor market — and often move against it.
The Dreamwork 500 is our curated view of that underlying signal: the employers that set talent gravity in tech, who's expanding, who's pulling back, which functions are hot, and where the roles actually live.
It's the same set of companies investors, journalists, and candidates ask us about most. Putting them on one scoreboard just makes that work easier.
What makes the list
Inclusion is editorial. We're after a curated watchlist, not an exhaustive directory. A company earns a spot when its hiring patterns move markets, when it represents a frontier bet (AI, climate, defense, biotech tooling, crypto), or when it's a consistent recruiter of the most competitive talent in its category.
In practice the list skews toward Fortune 500 tech, frontier AI labs, pre-IPO unicorns, and growth-stage standouts — names like Stripe, NVIDIA, Anthropic, Shopify, Cloudflare. New companies enter continuously as they qualify.
Citing the index
The live index at /research is free to read, no login required. A typical citation:
“According to the Dreamwork Job Index, 792,976 eligible roles were tracked across 43,193 indexed employers as of 2026-11-03.”
Questions, corrections, or a company you think belongs on the list? [email protected].