7.7% of the postings we index share a (company, title, place) key with another posting — the same job advertised in more than one place. A raw ‘open jobs’ count therefore overstates how many distinct roles are on the market. We count key-level duplicates and name the pattern we see most.
| Measure | ||
|---|---|---|
| Postings sharing a key with another posting | 7.7% | company + title + place |
| Most-repeated single posting | 1,248 records | one ad, many boards |
| Distinct employers in the index | 535,557 | cleaned employer names |
| Postings indexed | 8,946,879 | this edition |
Syndication. An employer posts once and the ad is pushed to several boards, or an agency reposts the same role under its own name. We match on a normalised company + title + place key, ignoring seniority words, so ‘Senior CDL Driver’ and ‘CDL Driver’ in the same city collapse into one key.
No. This counts one role published in several places. The same URL appearing twice inside a single source is a different, much smaller case — we do not mix the two numbers.
By this much: 7.7% of postings repeat a role already counted. Every duplicate is still a real ad a candidate can apply through, so we index them — we just say plainly how much of the count is repetition.
Where this connects. Outside work that defines or studies the measure on this page:
Need a different cut? Every figure on this page comes from one index, so we can extract almost any slice on request — a city, a role, an industry, a time window, or a comparison between platforms. Tell us what you need at [email protected] and we will pull it, publish it with its method, and hand you the numbers. All we ask in return is a citation.
“Still listed” is a listing-age measure from the source publish date, not a verification that a role is open; link liveness is measured separately. The percentages are the October 2026 edition (full pass, measured 2026-10-06); the index counts are rebuilt by every nightly update, most recently 2026-11-11. Page generated 2026-11-11.