Lever ghost jobs: what the sightings say.
43.9% of scored active Lever postings carry at least one ghost-job warning sign, against 17.8% across all ten boards JobsPipe collects. Here is the full picture for Lever: score bands, the reasons behind them, reposts, age and how quickly postings close.
How Lever scores
Lever postings are read from the public postings endpoint and have the shortest median lifetime of any board JobsPipe collects. The reposted share is small; the score is driven almost entirely by missing salary.
| Ghost score band | Lever | All boards |
|---|---|---|
| 0-24: looks live | 56.1% | 82.3% |
| 25-49: one warning sign | 43.4% | 16.4% |
| 50-74: several warning signs | 0.5% | 1.3% |
| 75-100: almost certainly stale | <0.5% | <0.5% |
- No salary stated90.0%
- Posted date far behind first sighting76.8%
- Posted by a mass poster (500+ open roles)41.0%
- Thin description (under 400 characters)6.7%
- Reposted (seen again after a gap of 10+ days)3.3%
- Open for 45 days or more<0.5%
How long Lever postings stay up
Lever removals are detected from the board feed at every crawl, so days live is a real measure here. Among Lever postings that closed in the last 60 days, the median was live for 8 days and three in four were gone within 10 days; 43.8% closed within a week and 93.0% within 30 days.
- Still open 30 days after first sighting56.7%
- Still open 14 days after first sighting66.0%
The cross-board comparison is on How long do job postings stay up?
Check a Lever posting
Paste the Lever job URL. The answer comes from the JobsPipe index, not from Lever.
Works with LinkedIn, Indeed, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters and Workday URLs. Reads the JobsPipe index, never the board.
Exclude Lever ghost jobs from a feed
curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "source_or": ["lever"], "max_ghost_score": 24, "status": "active", "posted_at_max_age_days": 30, "limit": 25 }'FAQ
How common are ghost jobs on Lever?
43.9% of scored active Lever postings carry at least one warning sign, against 17.8% across all ten boards JobsPipe collects. 2.4% of active Lever postings were seen again after a gap of ten days or more, and 4.4% were first sighted more than 30 days ago.
Why does Lever score the way it does?
Lever postings are read from the public postings endpoint and have the shortest median lifetime of any board JobsPipe collects. The reposted share is small; the score is driven almost entirely by missing salary.
How do I check whether a Lever job is still open?
Paste the Lever posting URL into the checker on this page. JobsPipe returns the first and last sighting, the status, and the ghost score with its reasons.
How do I exclude Lever ghost jobs from an API feed?
Send max_ghost_score 24 with status active and source_or ["lever"] to the jobs search endpoint. Raise the score cap to 49 if a missing salary is acceptable.