How the list is made

How does Open Abroad find contract roles open outside the US? A program reads 7,721 public job boards on Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby, keeps the postings that are remote, are contract or freelance work, and say they are open to people outside the United States, and checks them with simple rules. On 15 November 2026 that left 2,486 roles at 333 employers.

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What is read

• The public job-board feeds of Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby, which employers use to publish their openings. 270,036 postings were read. Workable, Recruitee, Personio, SmartRecruiters, LinkedIn and other job sites are not covered, so many employers, especially small and European ones, are missing.
• Boards where a contractor role has ever appeared are read every day. Every other board is read once a week, a seventh of them each day. The date on every page is the date of the latest run.
• A posting is listed when it says it is remote, says it is contract, freelance or contractor work, and its location line or text names a place outside the US, says worldwide, or says the person must be outside the US.
• Per role the site shows only the employer's full title, the employer, kind of work, the job board's location label, the date posted, the employer's own sentence about who may apply from where (quoted, at most 240 characters) and a link to the posting. The label and the sentence are shown separately, so you can see when they differ. Job descriptions are not copied.
• When the employer's sentence says plainly where the candidate may live or work, it wins over the label: a role labelled "Remote, United States" whose text says "open to recruiters based in Latin America" is listed. A sentence that excludes the candidate abroad ("not available to candidates outside the U.S.") keeps a role off the list. Sentences about the company's offices, its being global, relocation help or a "work from anywhere" perk do not count. A generic "work from anywhere" line does not widen a title or label that names a country or region.
• A role posted once per country by the same employer is shown once, and each posting keeps its own label and its own sentence.
• A role is shown on a country page only when the board's location label (or the title) or the employer's quoted sentence names that country, a region that contains it, or says worldwide or anywhere. A role with neither is on its employer's page only. On 15 November 2026: 549 roles have an employer sentence, 1,937 rely on the label alone, and 0 have neither.
• Each role shows why it counts as contract work: the job board's employment-type field, or the phrase from the title or the posting text (quoted, at most 160 characters). A role with no such evidence is not listed; on 15 November 2026 that left out 0 roles.
• To keep pages light, each page lists at most 60 roles, newest first, and counts the rest by employer with links. Every role is on its employer's page or, for the largest employers, on their own job board.
• Job aggregators that repost other firms' jobs are left out, because they are not the employer.

Limits

• The rules are not always right. In a hand check of 40 randomly chosen listed roles (one per employer), each checked against the live posting, on 15 November 2026, 35 were right; the wrong ones were: a driver job in Germany listed as remote (TSMG); label says APAC, the employer's sentence says North America or Europe, and the site showed APAC too (Mento); Canada taken from a sentence about where the company's team lives (CampusWorks); a talent-pool posting, with countries taken from a list of company hubs (Wrike); a practice posting on Lever's demo board (Lever Implementation Training Environment). Rules were then added for the company-team sentence, the company-hubs list and talent pools, and for Lever's demo board; the first two errors are still open.
• Two known error types: fixed-term or permanent employment contracts read as contractor work, and US roles that only mention a team abroad. Rules now drop postings with employment-contract wording and no independent-contractor wording, and postings whose location line names only US places when the text only mentions other countries in passing. On 15 November 2026 they dropped 118 postings. Postings the rules cannot place with confidence are dropped, not listed.
• Eligibility is quoted from the posting. Laws on contractors differ by country, and an employer may change its mind. Check the posting before you apply.
• 54% of the roles are AI-training, data-labelling or translation gigs, mostly from a few bulk posters. The 10 employers with the most postings hold 67% of all listed postings. Those gigs are marked and listed after the other roles on every page.
• The feeds show open jobs only. There is no history.

Regions and the countries they stand for

When a posting names a region, the role is shown on the page of every country in this table. Regions that include the US, such as "Americas", are not used.

What we store

• If you sign up for alerts, we store what you typed: your email, the country and kind of work you chose, your answer to the $9 question, the page you were on, the time, and the two-letter code of the country the sign-up came from, as Cloudflare reports it. It is kept for 180 days and then deleted automatically. We use it only to write to you about this test. We do not sell it or pass it on.
• We count visits without cookies. The count uses a scrambled code made from your IP address, browser and the date. The code changes every day, and the IP address itself is never saved. With each visit we keep the name of the website that linked to the page, such as news.ycombinator.com, and not the full address, and the two-letter code of the country the visit came from, as Cloudflare reports it, such as DE.
• We count clicks on links to postings, the same anonymous way, because they show whether the list is useful.
• We count how often search engines and AI assistants fetch each page, by the short name their software sends, such as GPTBot. We keep only that name, the page and the day.
• The site runs on Cloudflare, which keeps standard server logs.
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Corrections and deletion

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