28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
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- 28.3% of open job postings in September 2026 have been open for more than 90 days, based on 607,050 postings from employer career sites.
- The median age of an open posting is 36 days; 94,106 postings have been open over 180 days.
- Hospitality postings are the stalest (43.9% over 90 days), while healthcare turns over fastest (19.7%).
- Among applicant tracking systems, Lever has the largest stale share at 48.2%, while Workday has the smallest at 17.2%.
- Only 14.6% of closed postings were removed within a week, and 4.2% of closed postings were reposted within 30 days.
- Employers like Whataburger and American Logistics Authority show very high shares of long-open postings, while others like Lowe's and JLL have 0% over 90 days.
- Salary transparency varies widely by country, from 50.7% in the US to under 1% in Sweden.
- The report tracks postings directly from applicant tracking systems, not scraped from job boards, and notes limitations such as no data on employer interview activity.