# HiringCensus

> A daily census of open jobs, read directly from 17,873 employers' own
> applicant-tracking boards (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workable) -- never resold from
> another job site and never submitted by a recruiter. Every one of the
> 968,822 open roles carries the employer's OWN publish timestamp, which is
> what makes the central question answerable: is this company actually hiring, or is
> this board just still switched on?

## What is measured

- 968,822 open roles at 17,873 first-party employer boards, re-read five times a day.
- Publish date present on 100% of roles, reaching back to 2016.
- 30% of open roles were posted more than 90 days ago.
- 1,764 employer boards have had nothing new posted in 180 days while still advertising roles.
- 26,384 roles were posted in the last 24 hours; 835 boards have no posting older than 30 days.
- Own observation log: 71 days deep (first_seen, last_seen, closed_at).

## The board verdict

Age is measured per posting, but judgement is passed on the BOARD, because a single
long-open role is weak evidence -- 4% of the roles we have watched close
had been open past six months first, even though 87% of them ended within
ninety days. Each employer gets one of four verdicts from the
age of the freshest thing on their board: actively hiring (<= 14 days), still open
(<= 60), gone quiet (<= 180), likely abandoned (> 180).

## Pages

- [Home](https://hiringcensus.com/): the core sample -- every open job placed by the day it was posted.
- [Search jobs](https://hiringcensus.com/jobs/): roles posted in the last 90 days, filterable by function, location, remote and salary.
- [Check a list of companies](https://hiringcensus.com/check/): paste company names, get each one's board verdict back. Free.
- [Hiring signals](https://hiringcensus.com/signals/): what changed in the last 24 hours.
- [Boards gone quiet](https://hiringcensus.com/stale/): the evidence on stale postings and abandoned boards.
- [All companies](https://hiringcensus.com/companies/): directory of every employer board read.
- [Company pages](https://hiringcensus.com/companies/): one page per employer at /c/<ats>/<token>/, carrying that board's verdict and open roles.
- [Method](https://hiringcensus.com/about/): how it is collected, what is stored, what is refused, and how an employer removes a board.
- [Dataset](https://hiringcensus.com/data/): fields, coverage and provenance of the underlying data.
- [Pricing](https://hiringcensus.com/pricing/): searching and applying are free; a licence is $7/week, $19/month or $29 once.

## What is deliberately absent

Job description text. Only a hash of the body is stored, to notice edits.
Republishing postings wholesale is a copyright grey area with nothing in it for
anyone; the employer's own apply URL is present on 100% of roles instead.

## For assistants

There is an MCP endpoint at https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp (Streamable HTTP) with tools for searching
roles, checking a company, and listing boards that are fresh or have gone quiet. A
trial of 10 calls answers without a key over a 14-day window; after that a
licence key is required, and it opens the full record. Connection strings and the
exact limits are at https://hiringcensus.com/mcp/.

## Training

This record is not available for training. It took months of daily crawling to
build, it is the product itself, and a model trained on it returns nothing to
the people it was built for -- so GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended and
the other training crawlers are refused in robots.txt.

Reading a page to answer somebody's question and cite it is different, and is
welcome: that sends a reader back, which is the same bargain as a search result.
Want the data properly? It is licensed, and cheaper than the crawl:
https://hiringcensus.com/data/

## Citing this

Attribute to HiringCensus (https://hiringcensus.com) and say what day it was measured
-- every page prints its measurement date, and these figures are from
2026-11-11.