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Recruiting market data
Original statistics counted from the Work Insiders directory: pricing, MCP adoption and market size.
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Ghost Jobs 2026: How Common They Are and the New Disclosure Laws
The best posting data puts ghost jobs at roughly 1 in 7 to 1 in 5 listings, while 40% of hiring managers admit their company posted one. Ontario's…
Talent Orchestration: What LinkedIn’s New Report Means for Recruiters in 2027
LinkedIn's Future of Talent report says recruiting is becoming talent orchestration. Here are the numbers, the four new recruiter roles, the trust problem and the metrics that will…
Recruiting Metrics That Matter: Formulas, Benchmarks and AI Era KPIs (2026)
The recruiting metrics worth tracking in 2026, each with a formula and a verified benchmark from SHRM, Gem, Ashby and LinkedIn, plus new AI era metrics and a…
AI Engineer Salary 2026: Pay Benchmarks by Specialty, Level and City
US machine learning engineers report a $282,950 median total compensation on Levels.fyi (October 2026), versus $196,500 for all software engineers and a BLS May 2025 median wage of…
Tech Job Market 2026: Layoffs, AI Pay Premiums and Hiring Data
Layoffs.fyi counts 131,382 tech layoffs in 2026 so far, already above all of 2025, while CompTIA reports 629,876 active IT job postings in October, up 18.5% on a…
Cost of a Bad Hire 2026: What the Data Really Shows
Employers put the average cost of a bad hire at nearly $17,000 (CareerBuilder, 2016) and $14,900 (2017), while turnover studies range from 16 percent of salary to two…
Recruiting Funnel Conversion Rates by Stage: 2026 Benchmarks
A hire now takes about 200 to 291 applications (Gem, Ashby Q1 2026), only 3.6% to 4.7% of applicants reach an interview, and offer acceptance holds near 82%…
Cost Per Hire 2026: The $5,475 Average, Broken Down by Role
The latest SHRM average cost per hire is $5,475 for nonexecutive roles and $35,879 for executives (2025 survey), while SHRM's 2026 medians are $1,300 and $15,000. The old…
Time to Hire 2026: The 39 Day Benchmark, Stage by Stage
SHRM's 2026 benchmarking puts median time to fill at 39 days for nonexecutive roles, while SmartRecruiters reports a 38 day median time to hire and Gem's average rose…
Job Openings vs Hires 2026: 1.39 Openings for Every Hire (BLS JOLTS)
In September 2026 there were 1.39 job openings for every hire in the US: 7.5 million openings against 5.4 million hires, from the BLS JOLTS survey. The 2019…
Email Finder Statistics: 143 Tools Compared (2026)
As of November 12, 2026, Work Insiders tracks 143 email finder and contact data tools. 46 percent ship an MCP server, against 24 percent across the whole directory.…
Recruiting Software Pricing Statistics: Live Tracker of What Tools Charge (2026)
As of November 12, 2026, Work Insiders tracks the pricing of 1,327 recruiting and HR tools: 21 percent have a free tier, 32 percent hide their price, and…