To clarify, the reason that remote jobs list random states is because those are the states that the company has already done the payroll/HR paperwork for. They

To clarify, the reason that remote jobs list random states is because those are the states that the company has already done the payroll/HR paperwork for. They can add others, but its a fair amount of work by legal, finance and HR. If you're only hiring 1 person from that state, its a lot of hassle for relatively minimal benefit. This is part of the reason why PEO companies like Justworks are extremely beneficial for remote companies since they're already pre-registered in every US state. Also if you're founding a company where you want remote workers you should skip directly to a PEO since otherwise its a time-suck of issues.