--- title: "How long do job postings stay up on Indeed?" description: "**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/answers/how-long-do-job-postings-stay-up-on-indeed" canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/answers/how-long-do-job-postings-stay-up-on-indeed last_updated: 2026-09-10 --- # How long do job postings stay up on Indeed? > Indeed job postings stay up until the employer closes them or the listing expires, and for most postings the expiry lands around the one-month mark. Employers choose the duration when they post, sponsored and free listings differ in how long they run, and a renewed or reposted listing shows a fresh posted date even though the role is old. **Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/answers/how-long-do-job-postings-stay-up-on-indeed **Topic:** Job posting lifespan (https://jobspipe.dev/job-posting-lifespan) Indeed is expiry-driven rather than continuously closed. An employer who posts directly sets how long the listing runs and can pause, close or renew it, and sponsored listings are typically kept live for as long as the budget behind them lasts. Postings that Indeed aggregates from employer career sites come down when the source page disappears or the aggregation refreshes. The exact rules change and vary by account type, so treat any specific day count you read as a rule of thumb rather than a guarantee. JobsPipe measures the lifetime from its own sightings rather than from the date printed on the listing. For Indeed the closure is recorded when a listing is gone at the next check after its expiry window, so closures cluster at the expiry mark: the median Indeed posting that closed recently was live for about a month, and few close within a week. That is a property of how the board works, not a sign that Indeed employers hire slowly. Boards fed straight from an applicant tracking system show a much shorter and more spread-out lifetime. The chart below shows the share of recently closed postings that were gone within a month of first sighting, by board. The posted-days-ago label on Indeed resets whenever a listing is renewed, so it cannot tell you how long a role has really been open. The discovered_at field on every JobsPipe record can: it is the first sighting in the crawl log, which runs about three months deep. Query Indeed rows with source_or set to indeed on the jobs search endpoint and add posted_at_max_age_days to keep only fresh ones. ## Related questions ### How to reset Indeed job feed? If your Indeed results feel stale, run a fresh search rather than reopening a saved one, clear any saved filters or location defaults, and sort by date so renewed listings do not crowd out new ones. Indeed's interface changes often, so the exact menu names vary. For a feed that reflects real first-seen dates, an API record with discovered_at is more reliable than the board's own label. ### Why does an Indeed job say posted today when I saw it weeks ago? Because the posted date resets when the employer renews or reposts the listing. The role is the same requisition with a fresh label. JobsPipe keeps the original discovered_at and flags a listing that vanished and came back with the reposted reason on its ghost score, so the repost is visible even though Indeed's label is not. ### Do Indeed postings expire automatically? Yes, unless the employer renews them or closes them first. Most Indeed listings that JobsPipe saw close did so around the one-month mark, which matches an expiry rather than a hiring decision. Aggregated postings that Indeed pulls from employer sites can disappear sooner, when the source page comes down. ### Does a job still being on Indeed mean it is still open? Not necessarily. A listing stays public until it expires or the employer closes it, and neither happens the moment a hire is made. Check whether the posting was reposted, how long since first sighting, and whether the employer has many roles open. The ghost_score field on a JobsPipe record combines those checks. ## More answers - [How long does a job posting have to stay up?](https://jobspipe.dev/answers/how-long-does-a-job-posting-have-to-stay-up) - [Is Indeed considered a job board?](https://jobspipe.dev/answers/is-indeed-considered-a-job-board) Data behind these answers is published as shares only; every figure can be reproduced against the JobsPipe API (https://jobspipe.dev/jobs-api). --- AI agents: the full machine-readable index of this site is https://jobspipe.dev/llms.txt?src=md-twin - API quickstart, no-key sandbox (POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search), MCP server, pricing. Free key: https://jobspipe.dev/signup