Half the catalog was published more recently than this, by the employer's own date.

14.6%

of closed postings came down within a week

13,013 of 88,895 closures in the last 30 days. A posting that disappears in days was real.

4.2%

of closed postings were reposted within 30 days

3,915 of 94,333: same employer, same role, back as a new posting after the close.

How old the open postings are

Every dated open posting, by the time since the employer published it. The two right hand bands are what this report calls stale.

Under 30 days 45.1 % 260,305 30 to 60 days 17.1 % 98,473 60 to 90 days 9.5 % 54,850 90 to 180 days 12 % 68,951 Over 180 days 16.3 % 94,106

By category

Hospitality postings sit the longest: 43.9% have been open more than 90 days, median 65 days . Healthcare turns over fastest at 19.7% .

Category Share over 90 days Median age Open postings Salary stated Hospitality 43.9% 65 days 23,639 33.0% Education 37.4% 56 days 8,928 51.5% Other 35.3% 48 days 61,538 31.0% Engineering 32.3% 46 days 69,017 32.5% Design 31.5% 47 days 4,733 32.6% Skilled trades 29.5% 37 days 44,283 44.2% Product 29.4% 44 days 6,680 39.0% Operations 29.3% 37 days 40,041 34.4% HR & people 29.2% 35 days 6,323 32.0% Logistics 27.3% 30 days 28,881 48.6% Customer support 26.6% 32 days 10,023 46.1% Marketing 25.9% 37 days 12,263 34.6% Sales 25.5% 34 days 51,099 40.7% Data 23.6% 34 days 13,205 32.9% Finance 23.5% 33 days 20,517 35.1% Legal 22.0% 34 days 8,367 39.4% Retail 20.1% 24 days 41,677 51.0% Healthcare 19.7% 29 days 68,283 47.6%

By applicant tracking system

The system an employer posts through says a lot about how its postings age. Lever boards carry the largest stale share at 48.2% ; Workday the smallest at 17.2% . Pinpoint, Personio, Y Combinator publish no posting date, so their age cannot be measured and is not guessed.

System Share over 90 days Median age Open postings Lever 48.2% 83 days 1,871 BambooHR 47.9% 79 days 64,151 Recruitee 45.3% 82 days 596 Teamtailor 42.3% 64 days 45,698 Rippling 38.6% 61 days 16,339 Workable 38.2% 51 days 5,755 Breezy 36.7% 55 days 25,124 Ashby 34.8% 54 days 13,899 Greenhouse 32.1% 47 days 52,589 SmartRecruiters 27.0% 35 days 73,024 UKG 26.7% 35 days 51,130 Workday 17.2% 26 days 226,520 Pinpoint no posting date no posting date 15,691 Personio no posting date no posting date 11,018 Y Combinator no posting date no posting date 3,645

By country

The fifteen countries with the most open postings, by how their postings age and how often a salary is stated. The full thirty are in the CSV.

Country Share over 90 days Median age Open postings Salary stated United States 26.2% 34 days 334,681 50.7% United Kingdom 26.8% 36 days 29,629 36.9% Canada 27.6% 36 days 21,977 48.8% Germany 31.7% 54 days 20,286 3.9% France 32.6% 48 days 19,030 15.9% India 25.9% 33 days 14,287 1.9% Sweden 40.9% 51 days 11,774 0.4% Australia 21.5% 28 days 7,872 14.7% Spain 34.3% 50 days 6,367 9.3% Singapore 26.3% 37 days 4,792 4.2% Brazil 27.4% 39 days 4,153 13.8% Mexico 29.7% 41 days 3,858 17.2% Netherlands 39.2% 64 days 3,525 27.9% Poland 28.8% 42 days 3,516 4.2% Italy 25.8% 29 days 3,446 42.7%

The employers with the most open postings

The twenty employers with the most postings open on their own careers site, and how many of those have been up more than 90 days. A long open posting is not proof of anything on its own: some roles are evergreen, some employers hire in volume all year. This table reports the rate and links every name to its postings so you can check them at the source. Employers appear above 50 open postings only.

Employer Open postings Share over 90 days Median age O'Reilly Auto Parts 14,320 45.6% 77 days CVS Health 14,195 5.1% 22 days Lowe's 12,225 0.0% 22 days TJX Companies 10,157 14.0% 22 days Accenture 4,270 3.4% 13 days Whataburger Restaurants 4,184 83.9% 239 days JLL 3,766 0.0% 15 days PACS Group 2,786 1.1% 22 days AdventHealth 2,778 0.0% 9 days Genuine Parts Company 2,762 0.0% 22 days ABB 2,757 5.2% 21 days Kohl's 2,670 0.0% 23 days Curtiss-Wright 2,667 0.0% 23 days Dick's Sporting Goods 2,665 0.0% 23 days Hitachi 2,649 0.0% 26 days Mercy 2,634 0.0% 28 days American Logistics Authority 2,597 100.0% 308 days Booz Allen Hamilton 2,218 0.0% 26 days GE Vernova 2,076 10.9% 21 days MUSC 2,071 20.2% 37 days

Fastest to take a posting down

Employers whose postings close soonest after publishing, by median days from posting to removal over the last 90 days. At least 30 closures each.

• Worldpay 2 days 38 closed
• Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital 2 days 35 closed
• OCE1003OCNS 3 days 41 closed
• The Works 4 days 103 closed
• Diamond 5 days 100 closed
• Grady Memorial Hospital 5 days 42 closed
• Pinnacle Treatment 5 days 33 closed
• Clera 6 days 681 closed
• BBVA 6 days 602 closed
• Weekday 6 days 318 closed
• Wellstar Health System 6 days 177 closed
• MSKCC Primary 6 days 38 closed
• Pluxee 6 days 35 closed
• EWOR GmbH 7 days 493 closed
• UofL Health 7 days 155 closed
• Parkland 7 days 88 closed
• Kaweah Health 7 days 68 closed
• ProMedica Central Physicians 7 days 52 closed
• Air Products 7 days 45 closed
• Maslow Group 7 days 44 closed

Every posting states a salary

Employers with 50 or more open postings where the largest share carry a stated salary. Sorted by share, then by size.

• Kimmel & Associates 100.0% 405 open
• Relativity Space 100.0% 335 open
• NYU Langone Health 100.0% 316 open
• Children's Hospital 100.0% 311 open
• 4th Day Trucking 100.0% 303 open
• DIG INN Chefs-In-Training 100.0% 302 open
• Nfamilyclub 100.0% 271 open
• MINK Life & Legacy Agency 100.0% 242 open
• Chevron Stations 100.0% 238 open
• 10-4 Truck Recruiting 100.0% 226 open
• American Transport Team 100.0% 220 open
• Hillstone Restaurant Group 100.0% 211 open
• Chess Wizards 100.0% 208 open
• Comprehensive Rehab Consultants 100.0% 200 open
• Flexport 100.0% 194 open
• Ensemble Performing Arts 100.0% 193 open
• Nexploreusa 100.0% 183 open
• Alchemy Financial Group 100.0% 177 open
• XP Inc. 100.0% 171 open
• Meron Financial Agency 100.0% 170 open

Closures and reposts

88,895 postings removed from their employer's site in the last 30 days

14.6% came down within a week of publishing and 30.8% within two.

24 days median time from publishing to removal

Over postings that closed in the last 90 days. Ninety percent closed within 113 days. We have watched for 29 days, so the true medians can only be longer; this is a lower bound.

4.2% of closed postings came back within 30 days

3,915 postings closed and the same employer published the same role again. A further 4,576 open postings were closed and reopened in place.

Definitions and method

Stale A posting the employer's own careers site has shown open for more than 90 days, counted from the date the employer published. This report never calls a single posting a ghost job. It reports rates. Repost A posting that closes and comes back within 30 days as a new posting for the same role at the same employer, matched on the normalized title and description. Where the data comes from Unlisted reads the public APIs of the applicant tracking systems employers post through, board by board, every few hours. Nothing is scraped from job boards and nothing is estimated. Every posting counted here was open on its employer's site when the report was computed. What it cannot say Whether an employer that keeps a posting up is still interviewing, and how long the same postings stay on LinkedIn or Indeed after they leave the source. We only see the source. Closure times are bounded by how long we have been watching, and the report says so wherever it prints one.

Download the tables

Each table on this page as a CSV, with company rows linked to their catalog page.

• By category .csv
• By country (30 countries) .csv
• By applicant tracking system .csv
• Employers with the most open postings .csv
• Fastest to take a posting down .csv
• Salary disclosure by employer .csv

Quoting this report

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Unlisted, Ghost Jobs Report, September 2026 . unlisted.careers/ghost-jobs/report/ 2026-09

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