How Long Do Job Postings Stay Open?
Posting-age data measured directly from 403,898 live listings — not survey estimates.
Last updated August 9, 2026 · refreshed weekly · part of the USA Jobs Board market analytics
Age of live postings
How long the 206,617 openings that publish a posting date have been live so far.
Closed listings: actual time on market
Of the 114,231 listings that closed in the last 90 days, the average stayed open 93.9 days.
Postings under a week old are your best-odds applications — employers review early applicants first. Openings past two months are often evergreen requisitions that hire continuously rather than for a single seat.
Methodology
USA Jobs Board aggregates live openings directly from employer applicant-tracking systems across all 50 states — no scraped duplicates, no expired reposts. These reports are recomputed weekly from the full corpus: counts reflect listings live at analysis time, and the language analysis covers the complete text of every job description in the corpus. Word frequencies exclude stop-words, numbers, and legal boilerplate; skills are matched from a curated lexicon and counted at most once per listing.