Paylocity ghost jobs: what the sightings say.
2.4% of scored active Paylocity postings carry at least one ghost-job warning sign, against 17.8% across all ten boards JobsPipe collects. Here is the full picture for Paylocity: score bands, the reasons behind them, reposts, age and how quickly postings close.
How Paylocity scores
Paylocity career sites belong to mid-market US employers. The board is small in JobsPipe and reads as live: postings score low and close on a normal cadence.
| Ghost score band | Paylocity | All boards |
|---|---|---|
| 0-24: looks live | 97.6% | 82.3% |
| 25-49: one warning sign | 2.4% | 16.4% |
| 50-74: several warning signs | 0.0% | 1.3% |
| 75-100: almost certainly stale | 0.0% | <0.5% |
- No salary stated89.7%
- Posted date far behind first sighting37.7%
- Thin description (under 400 characters)2.1%
- Reposted (seen again after a gap of 10+ days)1.8%
How long Paylocity postings stay up
Paylocity removals are detected from the board feed at every crawl, so days live is a real measure here. Among Paylocity postings that closed in the last 60 days, the median was live for 13 days and three in four were gone within 14 days; 22.7% closed within a week and 96.5% within 30 days.
- Still open 14 days after first sighting100.0%
- Still open 30 days after first sighting13.7%
The cross-board comparison is on How long do job postings stay up?
Exclude Paylocity 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": ["paylocity"], "max_ghost_score": 24, "status": "active", "posted_at_max_age_days": 30, "limit": 25 }'FAQ
How common are ghost jobs on Paylocity?
2.4% of scored active Paylocity postings carry at least one warning sign, against 17.8% across all ten boards JobsPipe collects. 2.2% of active Paylocity postings were seen again after a gap of ten days or more, and 44.6% were first sighted more than 30 days ago.
Why does Paylocity score the way it does?
Paylocity career sites belong to mid-market US employers. The board is small in JobsPipe and reads as live: postings score low and close on a normal cadence.
How do I check whether a Paylocity job is still open?
Use the JobsPipe jobs search endpoint with source_or set to paylocity and status set to any; every record returns discovered_at, last_seen_at, status and ghost_score.
How do I exclude Paylocity ghost jobs from an API feed?
Send max_ghost_score 24 with status active and source_or ["paylocity"] to the jobs search endpoint. Raise the score cap to 49 if a missing salary is acceptable.