The Zeltru Report · Edition No. 1 · September 2026
How is the job market right now?
503,503 job postings, read daily from 1,124 employers’ own career boards. Not surveys — the boards themselves, measured. Data as of August 30, 2026.
- 48.5%of dated active postings have been listed 30 days or longer
- 18.8%have been listed 90 days or longer
- 21 daysmedian age at removal, across 185,659 postings watched come down since July 24, 2026
- 10,123removed postings have since reappeared
- 2009The oldest “open” posting we track carries an employer-published date from 2009 — flagged implausible, shown anyway in the report’s table of longest-listed postings, where it links to the live listing.
When hiring actually closes a posting, it closes in about three weeks. The long tail is something else — and measuring what, is this series’ job.
Age distribution, the records, the removal lifecycle, cuts by sector, platform and geography, and the methodology.
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Zeltru. “Edition No. 1 — September 2026.” Published September 1, 2026. Data as of August 30, 2026. https://www.zeltru.com/reports/2026-09
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Computed August 31, 2026 from the fleet’s last complete read on August 30, 2026. Cite the data date, not the computation date.
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