best subreddits for jobs

Most job subreddits are crowded with people offering their own services, so the best ones are those where the hiring posts are easy to find and state the pay. By the kind of work:

• Freelance work of any kind

  r/forhire and r/hiring. The two big general boards. Titles are tagged, so the hiring posts are easy to find, and most of them state a rate.

• Quick paid tasks

  r/slavelabour and r/DoneDirtCheap. Jobs that take an hour or two. The pay is low, but nearly every post is a real task.

• Art and illustration

  r/HungryArtists and r/gameDevClassifieds. Commissions with the budget in the post on r/HungryArtists, and art for indie games on r/gameDevClassifieds.

• Graphic and UI design

  r/DesignJobs. Logos, app UI and web design, usually with the budget in the title.

• Writing

  r/HireaWriter. Mostly YouTube scripts. It's small, and some posts want a large unpaid writing test.

• Software development

  r/devjobs, r/remotejs and r/remotepython. Smaller boards where far more of the posts are hiring. r/developerjobs and r/softwareengineerjobs are bigger, but most of their posts aren't jobs.

• Salaried tech jobs

  r/jobbit and r/RemoteJobs. Full-time roles at named companies, where you apply on the company's own site. Both are slow.

• AI and machine learning

  r/MachineLearningJobs and r/remotepython. Contracts training and evaluating AI models at high hourly rates, and some salaried ML roles.

• Jobs in Pakistan

  r/hiringpakistan. One of the busiest subreddits we read, with on-site jobs in the big cities and remote work.

Ranked by how many hiring posts we found, with the share of posts that were hiring and the median pay where enough posts stated it. The last column is live: jobs posted in the last 14 days that are listed now.

The share counts only posts we read. Posts already tagged [For Hire] or [Offer] were skipped first, so on subreddits that tag strictly, like r/HungryArtists, r/DesignJobs and r/forhire, nearly everything left was hiring.

4 subreddits with a job board's name turned out to be mostly something else.

• r/softwareengineerjobs: 14 of 147 posts were hiring (10%). The rest were mostly questions and career discussion.
• r/developerjobs: 11 of 79 posts were hiring (14%). The rest were mostly people offering their services without tagging them.
• r/RemoteJobs: 9 of 61 posts were hiring (15%). The rest were mostly questions and career discussion.
• r/MachineLearningJobs: 10 of 57 posts were hiring (18%). The rest were mostly questions and career discussion.

They're still worth checking, since their hiring posts are often well-paid tech roles, but scrolling them yourself takes a while. That's the job Only Hiring does: it reads every post and lists only the hiring ones.

Medians from hiring posts that stated a US-dollar amount, for subreddits with at least 5 such posts. Fixed prices are per job, and the samples are small, so treat these as a rough guide.

• r/HungryArtists$225 per project from 20 posts
• r/DesignJobs$187.50 per project from 10 posts
• r/slavelabour$20 per project from 7 posts
• r/gameDevClassifieds$450 per project from 5 posts
• r/DoneDirtCheap$30 per project from 5 posts
• r/forhire$25/hr from 7 posts
• r/hiring$19.75/hr from 6 posts

The gap is the point: art and design commissions on r/HungryArtists and r/DesignJobs run to hundreds of dollars, while a task on r/slavelabour or r/DoneDirtCheap is usually tens. Most subreddits don't make the list at all, because too few of their posts state pay.

Outright scams are rare on these subreddits. Low pay and unpaid tests are much more common. Right now, 28 of the 252 open jobs carry a scam warning, and 3 more are hidden as likely scams.

Our guide to Reddit job scams breaks it down by subreddit, with the warning signs we see most.

• Sort by New and check often. The first good replies get read; later ones often don't.
• Read the subreddit's rules before you post or reply, and use its tags.
• Answer what the post asks: rates, a portfolio link, a code word. Generic replies get skipped.
• Agree on the work, the pay and how you'll be paid in writing, before you start.
• Never pay to get a job, and keep ID and bank details back until there's a real offer.

The same subreddits work from the other side. Pick from the short version above by the kind of work, and avoid the subreddits where most posts aren't jobs, where a hiring post sits among questions and self-promotion. Hiring posts on every subreddit here also appear on Only Hiring, free and with nothing to sign up for.

• State the pay. 61% of the hiring posts we read did, and posts with a rate in the title are the easiest to find in a crowded feed.
• Use the subreddit's [Hiring] tag or flair, and read its rules first. Some require a budget.
• Say what the work is, what you need back and by when, and how to apply.
• Leave out what reads like a scam: contact only through Telegram or WhatsApp, an unpaid test that's real work, or a fee of any kind. We flag those posts, and hide the worst.

Only Hiring collects new posts from the subreddits listed here, and skips the ones tagged [For Hire] or [Offer]. A language model reads each remaining post, decides whether it's hiring, and pulls out the role, pay and location. The figures above come from all 712 posts collected since October 2026, with reposts and crossposts counted once, and they update as new posts come in.

The model can be wrong, and some subreddits have only a handful of posts, so take the exact numbers loosely. The differences between subreddits are large enough to hold up. How Only Hiring works has more.