Human Resources jobs and conferences

Talent acquisition, HR business partners, compensation and people operations. Human Resources has about 14,523 verified open jobs on NextChapter right now, with a typical posted salary of $110,000 a year. About 44% of openings are entry or early-career level. 143 conferences are tagged to it, 98 with dates announced.

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Human Resources market snapshot

Every figure names its source and period. Estimates are labeled as estimates; AI exposure is what AI could do in principle, not a measured job loss.

Verified open jobs
about 14,523

Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.

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Typical posted salary
$110,000 a year (middle half $79,000 to $165,000)

Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,340 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Entry or early-career level
44% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Ask for AI skills
2% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: AI-skill tagger on the posting text, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Remote
6% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Median annual wage, Business & financial occupations
$82,660

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, national, all industries, May 2025.

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Observed AI exposure, Business & financial occupations
18% of tasks show work-related Claude usage (average across 29 occupations)

Source: Anthropic Economic Index, labor market impacts, March 2026: coverage of tasks, not job loss, estimate.

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AI task exposure, closest group (Business & financial)
54 out of 100: what AI could do in principle, not a measured job loss

Source: NextChapter White Collar Employment Report, September 2026; Eloundou et al. (2024) task-exposure score, estimate.

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Employment change, Business & financial
+10.8% from 2022 to 2026

Source: NextChapter White Collar Employment Report, September 2026, Census CPS (NextChapter calculation), January to August, 2022 and 2026.

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Unemployed 27+ weeks, last job in Business & financial
30.5% of unemployed people

Source: NextChapter White Collar Employment Report, September 2026, Census CPS (NextChapter calculation), January to August 2026, 530 respondents.

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Conferences in the catalog for Human Resources
143, 98 with dates announced

Source: NextChapter conference catalog, checked against each event’s own site.

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Next conference
ERE Recruiting Innovation Summit, Nov 10, 2026

Source: NextChapter conference catalog.

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Median published ticket price
$725

Source: NextChapter conference catalog, lowest published price, 41 conferences with a price.

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Open calls for speakers
18 conferences

Source: NextChapter conference catalog.

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Skills most often named in openings

  1. 1. talent acquisition10%
  2. 2. onboarding8%
  3. 3. employee relations8%
  4. 4. hris4%
  5. 5. excel3%
  6. 6. workday2%
  7. 7. project management2%
  8. 8. change management2%

States with the most openings

  1. 1. CA12%
  2. 2. NY9%
  3. 3. TX8%
  4. 4. IL5%
  5. 5. FL5%

What Human Resources jobs pay

Advertised pay on live postings that state it, annual in US dollars.

Human Resources pay: median $115,000, middle half $80,000 to $157,500, from 3,102 postings. See also the skills that pay more.

Open Human Resources jobs

Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.

Showing the newest 15 of about 14,523 verified open jobs here. Search all jobs

Industries hiring for this function

Employers hiring

Human Resources jobs in the rankings

Rankings about human resources jobs

Human Resources jobs · Top Human Resources employers · All rankings

Ranked: the employers hiring the most human resources jobs

Human Resources conferences

Conferences tagged for this function, plus events with no function tag whose attendee roles point here.

Showing 60 of 143 conferences, 98 with dates announced.

Associations and organizers

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