Only 18 in 100 remote jobs are open to anyone living in the Global South

Key findings

• "Remote" rarely means "from anywhere": 0.4% of the 148,845 live remote postings (589) are open to applicants in any country. 46.4% are open only to residents of the United States, and 1.7% state no location at all.
• 17.6% (26,211) can be applied to from at least one country of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, or developing Asia and the Pacific; 50.3% are open to residents of the United States.
• For every 100 remote jobs a US resident can apply to, a resident of Nigeria 1.7, Kenya 1.7, Pakistan 2, Bangladesh 1.2, Egypt 1.8, India 7.3, Brazil 8.1.
• A remote posting is 3.9 times as likely to be open to Latin America and the Caribbean (8.3%) as to Sub-Saharan Africa (2.1%).
• Of the postings open to the Global South, 90.1% name one of its countries; the rest reach it only through worldwide or region lists ("EMEA", "LATAM", "APAC").
• 4,501 of the 22,175 employers with remote postings (20.3%) have at least one open to the Global South.
• Of the country- and region-scoped postings open to the Global South, 38.3% come from employers headquartered in the United States, and 18.6% from employers based in the Global South itself.
• The median stated salary of remote postings that name a Global South country is $29,868 a year (2,700 salaries), against $153,000 for postings open only to US residents (37,613).
• Junior remote roles are open to the Global South more often than leadership ones: 16.7% against 8.8% for heads and directors.
• By role family, the most open are Frontend (35.8%), Support (32.3%), Data Science (26.3%); the least, Early Careers (11.3%), Hospitality (10.7%), Field & Service (9.8%).
• 12.8% of the postings open to the Global South set working hours (a time zone or an overlap), against 5.5% of all remote postings.

By region

Remote postings open to at least one country of the region: named in the posting, inside a region it names, or open worldwide.

By country

What a resident of each country may apply to. "Per 100" compares it with what a resident of the United States may apply to. The 66 countries shown are named by at least 10 postings; the rest - mostly small states reached only through region lists - are in the CSV, with every country. A median salary is shown from 30 stated salaries, counting only postings that name the country.

For comparison:

Who hires

The employers with the most remote postings that name a Global South country, from their own career sites. Staffing agencies are marked; job boards are left out. The full list of the top 500 is in the Hugging Face dataset.

Where those employers are based

Country- and region-scoped postings open to the Global South, by the country the employer is run from. 18.6% come from employers based in the Global South itself.

By role family

The share of each family's remote postings open to the Global South, beside the share open to US residents. Families with at least 500 remote postings.

By seniority

What is measured

• Population. Every live, fully remote posting Alion reads from an employer's own applicant tracking system - 148,845 postings from 22,175 employers - whose board was read again within the last 48 hours and still listed it. Hybrid roles are not counted: they need an office to go to.
• Who may apply. A posting is open to a country when it is open worldwide, when it names the country, or when it names a region that contains the country ("EMEA", "LATAM", "APAC", "Africa"). A region Alion's parser inferred rather than read in the posting does not count - for example the Eurasian Economic Union partners added to every remote posting of a Russian-market job board. "North America" counts as the United States, Canada and Mexico, which is what such adverts mean. A posting that excludes a country is not counted for it. A remote posting that states no location at all (1.7%) counts toward no country. 92.5% of the postings state their coverage in the hiring system's location field or in the text; the rest is read from the posting's city or board.
• Global South. The 161 countries and territories of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Oceania, without the high-income economies that hire remotely on the same terms as the West: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Israel, Cyprus, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand. The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Germany are shown for comparison.
• Pay. Salaries as the employer states them, converted to US dollars a year. A median is published only from 30 stated salaries, and only from postings that name the country: a region-wide role is usually priced for the employer's home market.
• Employers. Named by the employer's own career site. Job boards that republish other employers' postings are left out; staffing agencies are kept and marked.
• Limits. The sample is the employers Alion tracks - weighted toward technology and toward companies that run their own hiring system - not every job ad in the world. Coverage is read from each posting and can be wrong on individual rows (a country named for its office rather than for who may apply); the shares are robust to that, a single row is not. "Open to" means the advert allows the application, not that a hire follows.

Use and cite

The figures and the downloads are published under CC BY 4.0: use them freely, with a credit and a link to the edition.

Alion Global South Remote Hiring Index, October 2026. https://alion.io/data/remote-global-south/2026-10 (CC BY 4.0)

Data: CSV (every country) · JSON (the whole edition) · Hugging Face (every table, one file per month).

Press and data requests, custom cuts for a country, role or employer: [email protected]. Remote roles open to your country, live: alion.io/jobs.

Also from Alion: the Ghost Jobs Index - how long postings stay up, and how many carry ghost-job signals.

Editions

• October 2026