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Do postings that state pay come down sooner?

We split postings by whether they state a pay figure and compare how long each group stays listed.

Key figures

Measure
Median listing age — states pay22 daysn=812,943
Median listing age — no pay stated27 daysn=5,751,489
Listed 90+ days — states pay25.7%
Listed 90+ days — no pay stated28.27%

Frequently asked

Do postings that state pay stay listed longer or shorter?

Shorter. Median listing age is 22 days when a pay figure is stated and 27 days when it is not.

Does stating pay change the stale share?

Listed 90+ days: 25.7% with pay stated vs 28.27% without.

Is this a causal claim?

No. It is a measured difference between two groups of postings — not evidence that stating pay causes a posting to close faster.

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, “Pay disclosure and listing age — 2026-09-20”, https://deunemployment.com/data/pay-vs-listing-age (2026-09-20).

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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.