3 ways LinkedIn bills a job · US market · No published rate card
LinkedIn job posting cost: promoted job prices, job slots pricing and cost per month
LinkedIn does not have a price for a job post. It has a free tier with a short shelf life, an auction, and an enterprise contract, and which one you land in decides whether a single marketing role costs you nothing, $300 or $1,000 a month.
Last updated August 2026 · US pricing · LinkedIn publishes no rate card
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A 30 day post here is $199 flat, published before you spend it. Listings are illustrative.
The short answer
LinkedIn job posting cost has three levels and only one of them is a fixed number. A free post is $0 but you can only have one open at a time, it stays active for about 14 days before it pauses, and it closes at 30 days. A promoted job runs on a pay per click auction with a reported daily minimum of $7 to $10, and LinkedIn publishes its own worked example: a $10 daily budget across 30 days comes to $300 or less. Job Slots are sold on contract at a reported $200 to $1,000 per slot per month, with most mid market buyers landing between $200 and $450. Reported US cost per click clusters around $1.50 to $4.50 and cost per applicant around $1.45 to $4.45, averaging near $2.83. For comparison, a 30 day post on MarketerJob is a published flat $199.
Free post, active window
14 days, then it pauses
Promoted, LinkedIn own example
$10 a day, $300 for 30 days
Job Slots, reported
$200 to $1,000 per month
Flat rate, published
$199 for 30 days
The three price tiers
How LinkedIn actually charges for a job post
These are three different products, not three sizes of the same one. A free listing, an advertising auction and a rented posting seat produce very different invoices, and picking the wrong one is the most common way employers overspend on a single marketing hire.
Free job post
$0
Not billed
One free job post open at a time per company page. LinkedIn keeps it actively distributed for roughly 14 days, then pauses it, and closes it at 30 days if it is never promoted. A post with the same title and company cannot be relisted for free inside 7 days, so a repost forces you into the auction.
The catch: The cap is on distribution, not on the listing existing. Once the free window burns down, applicant flow falls off well before the job closes.
Promoted job
$7 to $10 a day reported minimum
Pay per click auction, daily or total budget
You set a daily budget or a total budget and LinkedIn paces delivery against it. In LinkedIn own words, the cost of each click comes from an algorithm that weighs where your job is located and how many competing, similarly titled posts exist in that market. LinkedIn publishes one worked example on its pricing page: a $10 daily budget run for 30 days totals $300 or less.
The catch: There is no rate card, so a senior growth marketing role in New York and a coordinator role in Boise on the same $10 budget buy very different amounts of reach.
Job Slots
$200 to $1,000 per slot per month reported
Annual or multi year contract, quoted privately
A slot is a reusable posting seat. You can swap the role inside the slot when a search closes, which is why teams hiring continuously buy them instead of paying the auction over and over. Reported figures put most mid market buyers at $200 to $450 per slot per month, with volume discounts at ten or more slots and multi year terms cutting the effective rate by a reported 10 to 20 percent.
The catch: Slots are usually bundled into a Talent Solutions quote alongside Recruiter seats, so the per slot number on your invoice may not be comparable to anyone else quote.
Priced by situation
What LinkedIn costs for a real hiring situation, August 2026
Only the MarketerJob column is a published rate card. Every LinkedIn figure here is either what LinkedIn publishes as its own example or what independent US pricing trackers and employers report paying, because there is no public price list to quote. Use these to judge whether the quote in front of you is normal, then confirm inside your own account.
| Your situation | LinkedIn, reported | MarketerJob, published | What drives it |
|---|---|---|---|
| One marketing role, free post only | $0 for about 14 active days | $199 for a full 30 days | The free post is genuinely free. It is also one at a time, and it stops being distributed roughly halfway through the month. |
| One role, promoted at the reported floor | About $210 to $300 for 30 days | $199 for 30 days | LinkedIn own example is $10 a day and $300 or less. At the reported $7 floor a 30 day run is about $210. |
| One competitive senior role, promoted | Commonly $450 to $900 a month | $399 featured | Higher budgets are how employers force reach on titles where dozens of similar posts are bidding in the same metro. |
| Three roles open at once | Two must be promoted or wait | $597, or $999 unlimited | The one free post at a time rule is what pushes multi role teams into paid, not the reach. |
| Hiring continuously, five seats | Reported $1,000 to $2,250 a month | $999 a month unlimited | Five Job Slots at the reported mid market band, before any Recruiter seat fees. |
| Sourcing as well as posting | Recruiter Lite about $140 a month | Not offered | Recruiter Lite is reported at about $1,680 a year for one seat. It is a search product, not a posting product, and it is billed separately. |
LinkedIn is not the only platform pricing a job post by auction. Indeed does the same thing and repriced twice in three years, which is why so much of what is still ranking about it is wrong. The full picture across every US platform sits on job posting cost by platform, the flat rate case against this one is on our LinkedIn alternative page, and all thirteen platforms are compared side by side on where to post a marketing role.
Read the meter
Four billing details that decide your final LinkedIn invoice
The headline daily budget is the number every comparison page quotes. These four mechanics are what actually determine what lands on the card, and they are the ones employers tell us caught them out.
You are charged at $500, not only at the end
LinkedIn states your card is charged within 48 hours of closing the job, 30 days from the day you posted if the job is still running, or as soon as your balance reaches $500. Employers who set a high daily budget on a competitive title are the ones who get surprised by the mid cycle charge.
The daily budget is a pace, not a cap you will hit
Spend is driven by clicks the auction actually delivers. On a low competition title you can run for days well under budget, which is why the honest way to read $10 a day is LinkedIn own phrasing: $300 or less.
The 7 day repost rule is a paywall
A job with the same title and company as a recent post cannot be relisted for free within 7 days. If you close a role and reopen it, the second run is a promoted run.
Cost per applicant is the number that matters
Cost per click tells you what the auction charges. Reported US cost per applicant of $1.45 to $4.45, averaging near $2.83, tells you what a body in the funnel costs. Multiply by how many applicants you actually need to see, not by how many you receive.
An honest read
When paying LinkedIn is worth it, and when it is not
We sell job posts, so treat this section with the scepticism it deserves and check it against your own last three searches. Three of these six say do not spend the money, because on the wrong role that is the correct answer.
Worth paying for
You are hiring a senior or leadership marketing seat
Passive senior candidates keep profiles current on LinkedIn whether or not they are looking. For a VP or director search the auction is buying you access to people who will never visit a job board.
Worth paying for
You are hiring continuously across several roles
Slots amortize. If five marketing seats are open most of the year, a contract beats paying the auction from scratch on every search.
Worth paying for
Employer brand is part of the pitch
The company page, employee posts and the job all sit in one place, which is worth something on a role where candidates will research you before applying.
Save your money
You need one role filled and the budget is fixed
An auction cannot promise you a number in advance. If the finance answer has to be exact before you commit, a published flat rate does that and an auction does not.
Save your money
The role is a specialist marketing discipline
A general platform sends you volume. On a lifecycle, technical SEO or marketing ops role, most of that volume is unqualified and the screening hours cost more than the ad did.
Save your money
You already tried the free post and got nothing usable
Promoting the same ad buys more of the same audience. If the free run produced no shortlist, the problem is usually the band or the scope, not the budget.
For comparison
The published alternative: one price, marketing roles only
MarketerJob lists marketing roles and nothing else, every card carries a USD salary band, and the price is on the site rather than behind a consultation. That is the whole trade against an auction: less reach, more certainty, and an audience that all does the job you are hiring for.
$199
One marketing role, live for 30 days, no auction running behind it.
$399
Featured placement, specialty spotlight and matched subscriber email.
$999
Unlimited active roles per month, for teams hiring continuously.
Frequently asked
LinkedIn job posting cost questions employers actually search
How much does it cost to post a job on LinkedIn?
It depends which of the three tiers you use. One free post at a time costs $0 and is actively distributed for about 14 days. A promoted job runs on an auction with a reported daily minimum of $7 to $10, and LinkedIn own published example is a $10 daily budget totalling $300 or less across 30 days. Job Slots are contracted at a reported $200 to $1,000 per slot per month.
Does posting a job on LinkedIn cost money?
Not necessarily. LinkedIn allows one free job post open at a time per company page, and that post costs nothing. You start paying when you need a second role open at the same time, when you want the job distributed past the roughly 14 day free window, or when you repost a title within 7 days, which LinkedIn requires you to promote.
Do you have to pay to post a job on LinkedIn?
Only past the free tier. The free tier is one active post per company page, so a single open role can be advertised at no cost. Any second concurrent role, any extension of reach, and any repost of the same title inside 7 days moves you onto a promoted budget billed by click.
How much does LinkedIn job posting cost per month?
For one promoted role, a month at the reported $7 to $10 daily floor is roughly $210 to $300, which matches LinkedIn own $300 or less example. Competitive senior titles commonly run $450 to $900 a month because employers raise the budget to win the auction. On contract, Job Slots are reported at $200 to $1,000 per slot per month.
What is the cost per click for a LinkedIn job ad?
LinkedIn publishes no rate. Reported US cost per click for promoted jobs clusters around $1.50 to $4.50, inside a wider reported band of roughly $0.50 to $6.00 depending on the title, the seniority and how many similar posts are bidding in the same metro. LinkedIn describes the price as set by an algorithm weighing job location and competing similarly titled posts.
What are LinkedIn Job Slots and how are they different from a job post?
A job post is a single listing. A Job Slot is a reusable posting seat you rent, so when one search closes you can swap a different role into the same slot without buying again. Posts are bought by auction and slots are bought on an annual or multi year contract, which is why continuous hirers use slots and one off hirers use promoted posts.
How long does a free LinkedIn job post last?
LinkedIn actively distributes a free post for roughly 14 days, then pauses it, and closes it at 30 days if it was never promoted. The listing may still be reachable after the pause, but the applicant flow drops off sharply once the active window ends, which is the point at which most employers promote.
Why was I charged before my LinkedIn job closed?
LinkedIn bills at whichever comes first: within 48 hours of you closing the job, 30 days from the day you posted if it is still running, or as soon as your outstanding balance reaches $500. On a high daily budget against a competitive title, the $500 threshold arrives before the 30 day mark.
Is LinkedIn or a niche job board cheaper for a marketing role?
For one marketing role over 30 days the numbers are close: a promoted LinkedIn run at the reported floor is about $210 to $300, and a flat rate marketing board post is $199 published. The real difference is certainty and audience. The auction price is not known in advance and sends general traffic, and a specialty board is fixed in advance and sends marketers.
Is LinkedIn Recruiter Lite cheaper than promoting a job?
They do different jobs. Recruiter Lite is reported at about $1,680 a year, near $140 a month for one seat, and it is a sourcing product for searching and messaging candidates. Promoting a job is advertising spend that brings applicants to you. Teams that hire steadily often pay for both, and neither replaces the other.
How many free job posts can a company have on LinkedIn?
One open at a time per company page, with a limit on how many free posts you can create within any 30 day period. That single concurrency rule is what pushes most multi role marketing teams into paid, more often than reach or applicant quality does.
Does a bigger daily budget get more applicants on LinkedIn?
Up to a point. A higher budget wins more auctions and puts the job in front of more people, so raw applicant count rises. It does not improve targeting, so on a specialist marketing role extra budget usually buys more unqualified applicants rather than better ones, and the screening hours grow with it.
How to read the figures on this page: only the MarketerJob prices are a published rate card. LinkedIn publishes no price list for job posts, so every figure attached to it here is either LinkedIn own worked example from its pricing page or what independent US pricing trackers and employers report paying, checked in August 2026. Auction rates move weekly and contract quotes move by industry, location, company size and how many slots you buy. Verify inside your own account before you commit a budget. LinkedIn is a trademark of its owner and is referenced here only for comparison.
Know the number before you spend it.
An auction cannot tell you what a hire will cost until it is over. A 30 day marketing post here is $199 flat, with a salary band on every card and no invoice threshold running in the background.
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