The most in-demand remote jobs of 2025 can pay as much as $134,000 a year
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The highest-paying and most in-demand remote jobs are paying as much as $134,000 a year in 2025. Imagine working from home and getting paid that much.
Depending on your city and state, a salary like this could stretch a long way, especially if you upskill and increase your value through building a portfolio career.
What Remote Jobs Pay Well In 2025?
Some examples of the most in-demand and highest-paying remote jobs right now include roles like:
- Senior product manager (average salary $134,000)
- Senior software engineer (average salary $130,000)
- Account executive (average salary $115,000)
- Project manager (average salary $104,000)
- Senior customer success manager (average salary $104,000)
(Salary and role information from FlexJobs and Payscale.)
But where can you find these jobs?
13 Companies Hiring Remotely Right Now
In this article, you’ll discover who’s hiring (according to FlexJobs’ latest report), what roles they’re hiring for, and how to secure a top-paying remote job so you can work from any location in the U.S. (and sometimes, even internationally too). You can also check out 31 additional companies hiring for remote jobs in this article.
- Express Scripts
- Zurich Insurance Group
- ICF
- Pearson
- HCA – Hospital Corporation of America
- General Motors
- NBCUniversal
- Samsara
- Boston Scientific
- PNC
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals
- Piper Companies
- Visa
Which Industries Are Hiring The Most Remote Jobs Now?
According to FlexJobs latest report, these are the top industries with the most remote job postings.
1. Project management
2. Computer and IT
3. Operations
4. Sales
5. Customer service
6. Medical and health
7. Business development
8. Accounting and finance
9. Marketing
10. Administrative
How Can You Stand Out When Applying For These Remote Jobs?
Try these tips to help you land a remote job at one of these companies faster:
- Research each employer in detail. Study their company culture, ethos, and mission. Look at their annual financial investors report and their goals for the next three years. Familiarize yourself with these company assets and draw comparisons between your skills and experience and their vision and culture, making yourself an asset.
- Target remote jobs by ensuring that you highlight any remote or hybrid working experience in your resume and specifically mention “remote”.
- Highlight your proficiency with digital collaboration and asynchronous working tools.
- Point to examples of successful projects delivered or completed while working from home, with quantifiable metrics to back your claims.
- Follow these companies listed above, on LinkedIn.
What Should I Do If I’m Ghosted By An Employer?
Looking for remote work is already tough, with the demand and competition outpacing the supply.
To add insult to injury, being ghosted by a job you’re really excited about can be extremely disheartening and even demoralizing, especially when you’ve put in so much effort into tailoring your resume and ensuring your application meets all the requirements.
There are many reasons why ghosting happens, like:
- Recruiters may be genuinely overwhelmed and not have the capacity to respond to everyone, even if they wanted to.
- There are more candidates and applications than expected.
- Shifting hiring priorities and requirements internally, by hiring managers and senior leadership, which cannot be communicated to outsiders.
- The role was filled internally.
So what should you do?
- Give it a reasonable length of time (about a week after an interview or initial conversation is fine) and politely follow up via email to see if they need any further information and to enquire on next steps, how many interviews they have left to conduct, etc.
- If there’s still no follow-up, assume you didn’t land the job this time and move on, for your own mental health. Don’t spend too long thinking on the opportunity you missed; rather, prepare yourself for what might be around the corner.
Don’t let news of remote work declining derail or discourage you. There are still large numbers of employers hiring right now for well-paid fully remote and hybrid remote jobs. Keep going, keep applying, keep tweaking and adjusting your strategy, even when it feels like you have no results to show for it yet.
To stand out when applying for remote jobs, ensure your achievements and goals align with their culture and vision
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Position yourself as such a compelling candidate, that hiring managers are left with no other choice but to say, “Congratulations, welcome to the company.”