Job posting statistics
Job posting statistics measure how long job listings remain posted. Zeltru reads each posting from the employer’s own careers site, records the date the employer published it, and retains saved records during collection gaps. These figures describe 542,271 postings from 1,290 companies that carry an employer-supplied date, as of October 25, 2026.
According to Zeltru, which reads job postings on employers' own careers sites: of currently listed postings with employer-published dates, 55.2% have been listed 30 days or longer, as of October 25, 2026.
Posting Longevity Index — October 2026
Three figures, each with the population it is taken over, computed from the saved dataset. The computation date does not confirm a successful check of every board.
As of October 25, 2026, the median tracked job posting has been listed for 34 days, across 542,271 postings carrying an employer-supplied date.
As of October 25, 2026, these figures are drawn from 1,290 companies that publish a posting date on their own careers site. Companies whose boards publish no date are excluded.
For this month's US posting counts, see US job market, October 2026.
Posting longevity
A posting’s age here is the number of days since the date the employer published on their own careers site, as calculated in the dated dataset. The employer date is not a collection observation date. Where an employer publishes no date we record when we first saw the posting, and that is a floor rather than an age — those postings are excluded from every figure above.
These are composition figures. They say what the board looks like today, grouped by how long each posting has been up. They are not survival rates, and they cannot be read as “X% of postings close within 90 days” — that is a different measurement over a different population. The full distribution and industry breakdown sit on how long job postings stay listed, and the methodology states what is excluded and why.
Which postings are counted
Postings that carry a date supplied by the employer, and that are not flagged as evergreen or continuous-hiring. That is a subset of everything tracked: boards publishing no date are excluded, because an age measured from the day we first saw a posting is a floor, not the employer’s date. A figure on this site should always say which population it counts, and these three say so in the sentence.
Applicant reports
Applicant reports have moved to the private interview timeline, where your record of your own process is private to your account. No page publishes a reported no-response rate.
What a long-listed posting does and doesn’t show
We measure how long postings have been listed, not why they are still up — the reason is not visible from a careers page. We report aggregate statistics and the method behind them and let readers draw conclusions.
A posting can stay listed for many ordinary reasons: a backfill held open, continuous hiring for a high-turnover role, a slow internal process, or a board nobody has pruned. We publish how long each posting has been listed and link to the employer’s own page so anyone can check it.
Citing these figures
Free to cite with attribution to Zeltru. The aggregate figures behind this page are downloadable as CSV, read from the same source as the page so a citation and the page cannot disagree. Every figure states the date it was computed: October 25, 2026.