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The same job behaves differently on every platform

We index the same roles from company career sites, applicant-tracking systems and boards. Which platform a posting comes from changes three things we can measure: how long it stays listed, how often it states pay, and whether it tells us when it was published at all. Below is the league table — no ranking of employers, just what each platform's postings do.

Key figures

Measure
dark26 daysn=3,919,178 · states pay 13.86% · listed 60d+ 36.65%
workday12 daysn=841,759 · states pay 10.88% · listed 60d+ 0.0%
phenom32 daysn=299,912 · states pay 9.35% · listed 60d+ 34.3%
smartrecruiters46 daysn=212,816 · states pay 6.32% · listed 60d+ 44.51%
greenhouse58 daysn=160,987 · states pay 9.79% · listed 60d+ 49.14%
paycom69 daysn=125,492 · states pay 10.0% · listed 60d+ 54.0%
paylocity24 daysn=110,639 · states pay 13.32% · listed 60d+ 27.83%
oraclecloud23 daysn=108,176 · states pay 5.49% · listed 60d+ 20.84%
ukg33 daysn=102,015 · states pay 21.78% · listed 60d+ 33.38%
jibe47 daysn=100,640 · states pay 7.61% · listed 60d+ 44.97%
workable73 daysn=77,559 · states pay 12.46% · listed 60d+ 55.01%
dayforce33 daysn=71,186 · states pay 17.92% · listed 60d+ 33.06%
Longest-lived postingslever 101 daysn=64,267 · longest median listing age
Most pay-transparent platformukg 21.78%vs 12.4% across all postings
Publish date missing most oftenworkday 47.76%we still index the posting, but cannot date it — so it stays out of age measures

Frequently asked

Why does listing age differ so much between platforms?

Each platform reports a publish date and refreshes it on its own schedule. Workday postings median 12 days; lever postings median 101. We report what the source says and do not adjust it.

What does ‘publish date missing’ mean?

Some platforms do not expose a date at all. 47.76% of Workday postings arrive without one — we keep the posting, but leave it out of any age statistic.

Does this mean some platforms are better?

No. It measures transparency and refresh behaviour, not employer quality. A high median age can mean a platform keeps evergreen requisitions, or simply that it dates postings honestly.

How do you avoid counting the same job twice?

9.3% of postings appear on more than one board; we detect those and report the distinct role behind them.

Sources & citation. Measured over the September 2026 edition record set — full-corpus pass (measured 2026-09-15), not a sample — and 25,080 probed links. The index holds 7,415,865 postings, 3,624,739 of them live with a full description. License CC BY 4.0. Data: JSON · CSV · data health · methodology.
Press, research and custom cuts: [email protected] · Cite as: DeUnemployment, “Where job postings come from — platform by platform, 2026-09-20”, https://deunemployment.com/data/hiring-platforms (2026-09-20).

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.

More data

“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 September 2026 edition (full pass, measured 2026-09-15); the index counts are rebuilt by every nightly update, most recently 2026-09-20. Page generated 2026-09-21.