YC Startup Jobs Scraper: Salary, Equity & Visa

Scrape every open job at Y Combinator startups with no login and no API key: all ~1,500 hiring YC companies are checked on every run, and you get a startup hiring and pay report:

• Every job: title, role and specialty (backend, full stack, account executive ...), job type, location and remote, salary range, equity range, visa sponsorship, minimum experience, skills, posted date, link
• Company on every row: YC batch, one-liner, website, team size, industry, stage, top-company flag
• Salary as numbers: dollars, pounds, euros, rupees and more, hourly and monthly pay converted to a year
• Filters: keywords, roles, job type, locations, remote only, visa sponsorship only, minimum salary, maximum experience asked, YC batch ("W25", "S24"), industry, company region, top companies only, company search
• Optional job details: full description, interview process, exact posting date
• Hiring report over every matching job: salary by role, specialty and experience, equity, remote and visa share, top hiring startups, batches, industries and cities, highest-paid jobs

What does this YC jobs scraper do?

YC startups · all open jobs · 6,352 jobs at 1,393 companies
 Salary shown on 80% · median $165,000 (middle half $122,500 – $200,000)
 Engineering $175,000 · Product $175,000 · Sales $130,000
 Equity offered on 31% of full-time jobs · 36% remote · 11% sponsor visas

1. Optionally enter keywords, roles and other job filters, or company filters like batch and industry.
2. The Actor finds every hiring YC company in YC's public directory and reads each one's jobs page.
3. You get the newest matching jobs (up to your maximum) and one report over every match.

flowchart LR
    A[Company filters<br/>batch, industry,<br/>region] --> B[YC company<br/>directory<br/>~1,500 hiring]
    B --> C[Each company's<br/>jobs page]
    D[Job filters<br/>keywords, role,<br/>visa, salary] --> C
    C --> E[Jobs<br/>salary, equity,<br/>visa, experience]
    C --> F[Report<br/>pay by role,<br/>equity, remote,<br/>top startups]

Who is it for?

• Engineers, designers, sales and ops people looking at startups: every YC job with pay and equity in one sheet
• International candidates: filter to startups that sponsor visas
• Recruiters and talent agencies: which YC startups are hiring most, for which roles, at what pay
• Founders and hiring managers: benchmark salary and equity for a role against other YC companies
• Investors and analysts: hiring momentum by batch, industry and city across the YC portfolio

What data do you get?

Jobs (dataset, one row per job)

Field	What it tells you
id, title, url, companyUrl	The job and the company page
role, specialty, jobType, skills	Engineering / Sales / ..., the specialty, full-time / internship / contract
location, city, isRemote	Where, and whether remote is possible
salaryText, salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, salaryPeriod, yearlySalaryMin, yearlySalaryMax	Pay as listed and as a yearly amount
equityMinPercent, equityMaxPercent	Equity range
visa, sponsorsVisa	"Will sponsor", "US citizen/visa only" or "not required"
minExperience, minExperienceYears	Experience asked
postedAt, postedAgo	When it was posted
company, batch, companyOneLiner, companyWebsite, companyTeamSize, companyIndustry, companySubindustry, companyStage, isTopCompany	The startup
With job details: description, interviewProcess	The full ad

Hiring report (REPORT, over every matching job)

Field	What it tells you
companiesChecked, companiesWithMatchingJobs, jobsMatched, jobsSaved	Coverage
jobsByRole, jobsBySpecialty	What startups hire for
yearlySalaryUsd, yearlySalaryUsdByRole, yearlySalaryUsdBySpecialty, yearlySalaryUsdByExperience	Pay median and middle half (USD, internships excluded)
equityFullTime	Share of full-time jobs with equity, median top of range
remotePercent, visaSponsorshipPercent, visa, experience	Remote, visa and experience mix
topHiringCompanies, jobsByBatch, jobsByIndustry, topCities, highestPaid	Who, which batches, which industries, where, best-paid

REPORT_CSV is a flat salary table by role, specialty and experience.

Example: 17 October 2026

Every open YC job, no filters: 1,492 hiring companies checked, 6,352 jobs at 1,393 companies, 92 seconds.

Role	Jobs	Median salary (USD)	Middle half
Engineering	2,910	$175,000	$145,000 – $205,000
Operations	1,380	$163,500	$113,750 – $225,000
Sales	828	$130,000	$92,500 – $190,000
Marketing	423	$125,000	$85,000 – $155,500
Product	245	$175,000	$141,250 – $204,375
Design	186	$165,000	$125,000 – $195,000

• Experience pays: new-grad-friendly jobs $150,000 median, "6+ years" $189,500.
• Equity is listed on 31% of full-time jobs (median top of range 0.75%).
• 36% of jobs allow remote and 11% sponsor visas. Engineering jobs that sponsor visas: 410 matches; 150 with full descriptions in 179 seconds.
• Most open roles: Astranis (185), Legion Health (155), Whatnot (149), Zip (128).

Pricing

$0.002 per job saved, $0.001 per job with details (only when details are on) and $0.02 per hiring report.

• Every open engineering job (about 2,900) with a report: about $5.82
• 500 newest jobs with a report: $1.02
• Just the report (save 1 job): $0.022

The report always covers every matching job, even when you save only a few.

Good to know

• All hiring companies are checked on every run, so the report is the whole YC market for your filters; Maximum jobs saved only limits the rows you pay for.
• Salaries are the ranges startups list on YC. Hourly pay is converted at 2,080 hours a year, monthly at 12 months. About 1 in 5 jobs lists no salary.
• Posting dates are approximate ("about 1 month ago") unless job details are on, which gives the exact date.
• Batches take YC's short names ("W25", "S24", "F24") or full names ("Summer 2024").
• Privacy: founder and hiring-manager names are not collected.
• Data comes from Y Combinator's public company directory and job pages. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.

Input

Field	Meaning
Keywords	Words in the title, specialty or skills; empty = every job
Roles	Engineering, Sales, Operations, Product, Marketing, Design, Recruiting & HR, Support, Science, Finance, Legal
Job type	Full-time, internship, contract
Locations	Words in the job location ("San Francisco", "London")
Remote jobs only, Visa sponsorship only	Switches
Minimum salary (USD a year), Maximum experience asked	Pay and seniority filters
YC batches, Industries, Company regions, Top YC companies only, Company search	Which startups
Maximum jobs saved	1 to 50,000 (default 500), newest first
Job details	Off by default
Hiring report	On by default

Integrations

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets, or connect through the Apify API, webhooks, Make, Zapier and n8n. Schedule it weekly to track startup hiring and pay over time.