We analyzed the job market based on 7,426 job postings as of May 29, 2026. The recruitment market analysis is conducted based on advertisements registered on Employment24, and has the purpose of identifying the required manpower by region, the structure of the manpower desired by the company, and wages and employment types by occupation through the distribution of wages, companies/institutions, regions, and occupations in the announcements. In addition, we separately counted the announcements that confirmed the company type and industry classification and looked at which organizations and industries were showing recruitment demand.
Original Korean article: Recruitment analysis on May 29, 2026: Recruitment market structure and occupation/wage distribution
Comprehensive summary of daily job postings
Of the total number of 7,426 announcements, 7,159 were analyzed, excluding duplicate announcements, based on company/institution and occupation.
By region, Gyeonggi-do accounted for the largest share at 23.8% and Seoul Metropolitan City at 22.1%. This was followed by Busan Metropolitan City at 6.7%, Incheon Metropolitan City at 5.3%, Daegu Metropolitan City at 4.4%, Jeonbuk Special Self-Governing Province at 4.3%, and Gwangju Metropolitan City at 4.1%. Although the metropolitan area has a high proportion, when interpreting the job market, we need to look more at what occupations appear together in each region rather than just the total amount.
The most common wage type was unstated at 33.0%, followed by monthly wage at 21.6%, negotiated wage at 19.0%, hourly wage at 18.0%, annual salary at 8.1%, and daily wage at 0.3%. The average wage was 10,785 won per hour, 2.41 million won per month, and 35.23 million won per year. Since the wage units are different, it is appropriate to separate hourly wages, monthly wages, and annual salaries rather than grouping them into one overall average.
By occupation, production/manufacturing was the highest at 24.4%, followed by care/nursing at 15.7%, sales/service at 14.2%, office/administration at 10.7%, facility management/cleaning at 7.8%, driving/logistics at 5.7%, and medical/healthcare at 5.0%. Production/manufacturing, care/nursing, and sales/service formed the main occupation groups posted on this day.
Based on the type of company that can be confirmed in the original text, general companies were high at 39.5% and small and medium-sized companies were high at 22.7%. Public institutions and mid-sized companies were 1.7%, associations 1.3%, organizations 0.9%, and large corporations 0.7%, respectively. One thing to be careful about is that there are 30.6% of announcements where the company type cannot be clearly identified, so this item should be interpreted as a distribution within a verifiable range.
In the announcements confirming industry classification, the elderly care welfare facility operation industry was ranked at 7.8%, the home-visit welfare service provider industry at 5.0%, the sales industry at 2.3%, the social welfare consulting service provider industry at 2.1%, machinery, equipment, and automobiles at 1.6%, and the health industry at 1.5%. In the industrial distribution, industries related to care/welfare, sales/service, and manufacturing are also identified. The number of announcements with unconfirmed industry classification was 16.1%.
Major recruitment occupations by region
As a result of analyzing regional recruitment announcements in 17 cities and provinces, the proportion of announcements was highest in the following order: Gyeonggi-do at 24.8%, Seoul at 22.1%, Busan at 6.5%, Gyeongsangnam-do at 5.9%, Gyeongsangbuk-do at 5.3%, and Incheon at 5.0%. The metropolitan area has the largest hiring scale, accounting for approximately 51.9% of all vacancies, but the composition of occupations appears to be different. Gyeonggi-do can be seen as a region where production and manufacturing, care and nursing, and office and administration are relatively evenly distributed, so manufacturing-based jobs and demand for living services move together. On the other hand, Seoul Metropolitan City has the highest proportion of office work and administration at 39.9%, clearly showing the centrality of large city-type office work, management, and service jobs. Busan Metropolitan City and Daegu Metropolitan City are regions where care and nursing are ranked first, and aging and demand for daily care are strongly reflected in job postings. Gyeongsangnam-do, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Jeonbuk Special Self-Governing Province, Chungcheong region, and Gwangju Metropolitan City have a relatively strong manufacturing-based recruitment flow due to their high proportion of production and manufacturing. Although the total number of announcements in Sejong Special Self-Governing City and Jeju Special Self-Governing Province is small, production/manufacturing and sales/service are ranked first, respectively, confirming differences in regional industrial structures.
Looking at each region, hiring volume and job characteristics do not always move in the same direction. The metropolitan area, with its large number of postings, is the center of all employment opportunities, but Gyeonggi-do has both large production and manufacturing and care and nursing, and Seoul has a high concentration of office work and administration. In non-metropolitan areas, there are areas with a strong focus on care and nursing, such as Busan and Daegu, and areas with a clear focus on production and manufacturing, such as Gyeongnam, Gyeongbuk, Jeonbuk, North Chungcheong, South Chungcheong, and Gwangju. This shows that when job seekers choose a region, they should not just look at places with a large number of advertisements, but should also check whether their experience and qualifications match those of the occupations that appear repeatedly in the region.
Nationwide distribution by employment type
If you look at job postings by occupation based on the entire occupation group, you can see not only the wage type but also the region in which the occupation is most prevalent. Production/manufacturing was in the order of 495 cases in Gyeonggi-do, 190 cases in Gyeongsangnam-do, 148 cases in Gyeongsangbuk-do, 125 cases in Gwangju Metropolitan City, and 121 cases in Jeonbuk Special Self-Governing Province, with a large proportion of manufacturing-based regions in Gyeonggi-do, Yeongnam-do, and Chungcheong-do. Care and nursing appears strongly in the metropolitan and metropolitan areas, with 400 cases in Gyeonggi-do, 318 in Seoul, 122 in Busan, 122 in Daegu, and 113 in Incheon. The hourly and monthly salary notations are confirmed together. As for office work and administration, Seoul has the largest number of cases (655), highlighting the demand for office work and administration centered in Seoul.
By occupation, production and manufacturing are spread widely across Gyeonggi, Yeongnam, and Chungcheong regions, connecting them to the regional manufacturing base. Care and nursing are also strong in metropolitan areas such as Gyeonggi and Seoul, as well as Busan and Daegu, so it can be seen that aging and demand for daily care are reflected in the job market. The proportion of office work/administration and sales/service jobs in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province is high, confirming the concentration of office work and service jobs in big cities. On the other hand, relatively small occupations such as IT/development/data, construction/architecture/civil engineering, and education/childcare may appear to be more heavily concentrated in the top five regions. Therefore, at the actual application stage, it is necessary to check the number of announcements and wage types by region together.
Wage type by occupation
If you look at the wage type by occupation on the basis of the entire occupational group, the method of disclosing salary is clearly different for each occupation. Production and manufacturing make up a large axis with 38.9% of the negotiated type and 24.6% of the non-stated type, and there are many announcements that require confirmation of detailed salary conditions at the actual application stage. In care and nursing, hourly work is the highest (65.2%), showing a strong tendency to work by the hour, while in facility management and cleaning, the wage rate is high at 58.3%, showing a relatively clear fixed monthly work structure. Because office work and administration account for a high proportion of unstated positions (59.9%), the level of disclosure of conditions may vary greatly depending on the announcement.
Social insurance subscription according to wage type
As a result of re-parsing the collected original text, social insurance is not only viewed as “subscription specified/unspecified”, but it is also possible to distinguish and analyze the extent to which national pension, health insurance, employment insurance, and industrial accident insurance are each specified in the notice. In total, 4,469 cases of industrial accident insurance, 4,431 cases of employment insurance, 4,307 cases of health insurance, and 4,286 cases of national pension were confirmed, and the four types of insurance specifications were high in the monthly, hourly, and annual salary types with clear wage units. On the other hand, for the negotiated and unmarked types, not only salary conditions but also social insurance information tend to be less disclosed at the announcement stage, so you must check before applying.
This graph is not data that confirms actual subscription to the four major insurance policies, but rather shows how clearly each insurance item was disclosed in the original text of the announcement. Therefore, failure to specify does not mean non-enrollment, and in particular, for negotiated or unmarked announcements, it is safe to separately check whether national pension, health insurance, employment insurance, or industrial accident insurance is applied during the interview or application stage.
Industry and employment trends shown by job postings
The biggest axes in this job posting structure are production/manufacturing, care/nursing, and sales/service. Production and manufacturing appear repeatedly in several metropolitan areas, showing a wide distribution of manufacturing-based employment demand. Care and nursing have a strong hourly structure, showing that aging and demand for daily care are being reflected in the job market.
The distribution of companies and institutions is closer to the distribution of many companies and institutions rather than the concentration of specific top companies. Although the regional distribution has a large proportion in the metropolitan area, when reading employment trends, it is more meaningful to look at the composition of occupations and wage types within the region rather than the total amount in the metropolitan area.
The indication of subscription to the four major insurance policies according to wage type shows a difference in the transparency of employment conditions. While the monthly, hourly, and annual salary types have relatively clear social insurance information, the negotiated and unmarked types have limited information available at the announcement stage. Therefore, daily recruitment trends must look not only at the number of announcements, but also at wage units, company/institution dispersion, regional job composition, and the level of disclosure of information on the four major insurance policies.
Data basis: This report is based on a database collected on May 29, 2026. We simplified and analyzed the occupation, wage, and welfare items based on the original text of the announcement. Some items may be omitted or simplified depending on the original transcription.
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