How long do job postings stay open?

This snapshot looks at a sample of about 500K active job postings (475,840 listings) collected over the last 180 days.

Overall, job posts tend to stay open for about 3 to 4 weeks: the typical (median) posting is live for 20 to 30 days, and about a quarter stay up longer than roughly 59 days.

Some categories stay open longer than average. Retail, Food & Hospitality roles have a 33 day median window, which can happen because high turnover or recurring roles are kept continuously posted. Other categories close faster, like Admin & Office (18.2 days) and Recruiting (22.0 days).

What this means for applying: applying quickly still helps, but it is not usually a same day race. For many professional and knowledge work roles, applying within the first 1 to 2 weeks is typically a strong window. The more time sensitive exception is roles that fill quickly (like admin, seasonal work, and many hourly or warehouse postings), where earlier is better. For example, we see warehouse and seasonal work job postings close within a week.

Median open days by job category

Darker blue indicates longer median open duration. Labels show median days and sample size (n).

Category detail

Methodology

• For each posting, we estimate open time from when it was first observed in our crawl pipeline to the current snapshot date.
• As crawlers revisit listings, the most recent seen timestamp is refreshed for postings that are still live.
• If a listing is not seen for multiple crawl cycles, it enters a stale window before removal to avoid overreacting to temporary crawl gaps.
• This report focuses on currently active postings and summarizes estimated open days by category using median and upper-quartile values.
• These are visibility estimates from observed crawl history, not exact employer publish-to-close durations.