Research · Data as of 25 Oct 2026
How long do jobs stay open on company careers pages?
We tracked 107,032 job listings on 84 employers' own careers sites, each read daily, from 1 September to 25 October 2026. Here is how long they stayed up.
Key findings
- Half of new listings come down within 25 days of first appearing.
- About 1 in 4 is gone within a week, and 1 in 3 within two weeks. By day 30, 56% have come down; about 1 in 5 is still up after two months.
- The pattern isn't driven by a few big employers: without the 10 largest sites the median is 26 days, and counting each employer once, the typical employer's median is also 26 days.
- Support roles come down fastest (median 21 days). Operations, finance, product, HR and retail and warehouse roles stay up longest (31-32 days); engineering sits at 28.
- Junior titles come down sooner (18 days) than senior ones (27).
What it means
If a role interests you, apply in the first couple of weeks; by the end of the first month most listings are gone.
Still up, through day 60
Daily Kaplan-Meier curve to day 60, from the frozen 25 Oct 2026 listings. Days 7, 14, 30 and 60 are marked. The dashed line is the median, day 25.
Median by department
Limitations
Covers 84 employers whose sites we read daily, mostly large employers, and one employer (Amazon) is 38% of listings; "first appeared" is when we first saw it, up to a day after posting; "came down" means removed from the careers page, which can mean filled, paused or moved; a role reposted under a new ID counts as a new listing; listings already open on our first read of a site are excluded; roles that vanish and return with the same ID within 14 days count as one listing; anything beyond 60 days can't be measured yet; departments come from our classifier (about 82% accurate on roles it hasn't seen) and seniority from title words; department differences partly reflect which employers hire for which roles. This is not a sample of the whole labour market.
Methodology
Data through 25 Oct 2026, computed 26 Oct 2026. Kaplan-Meier survival; still-open listings kept as censored; sites with capped or partial reads excluded. Median 25 days (the 95% confidence interval rounds to the same day). This page is one frozen snapshot. A later refresh will be a new dated version.
Cite this
JobNotify. “How long do jobs stay open on company careers pages?” 26 October 2026. https://jobnotify.net/research/how-long-jobs-stay-open
For editors
JobNotify read 107,032 job listings on 84 employers' own careers sites every day from 1 September to 25 October 2026. Half came down within 25 days of first being seen. About 1 in 4 was gone within a week, and by day 30, 56% had come down. The pattern holds without the ten largest sites (median 26 days).