The Sin Bin · employer accountability

Who’s wastingyour applications?

Ghost jobs — reqs that linger for months, get reposted endlessly, hide the salary, or read like nobody’s really hiring. We measure them across our employer-direct index and name the worst offenders. Facts from public postings only.

Ghost Index · share of active reqs showing a ghost signal

45.8%

Active reqs analysed

1,203,818

Companies on the board

Snapshot

18 min ago

Signals

Long-open

Repeatedly posted

Evergreen / always-hiring

Non-ghost

The Sin Bin · most ghost postings

1EY

3,95556%

2Whataburger

3,924100%

3Trinity Health

3,53655%

4Capgemini

3,46754%

5macysinc.com

2,95991%

6JPMorganChase

2,52739%

7marriott.com

1,97665%

8Veterans Health Administration

1,95848%

9Domino's

1,83398%

10Northrop Grumman

1,69055%

11Hyatt

1,65467%

12Amazon.com Services

1,63746%

13SpaceX

1,43582%

14CHRISTUS Health

1,38766%

15DSV

1,35870%

16RTX

1,26032%

17dtlr.com

1,240100%

18Soliant

1,22316%

19AECOM

1,19948%

20CVS Health

1,19642%

21Sanford Health

1,18968%

22ngc.com

1,14572%

23globalhr

1,13630%

24Live Nation

1,13388%

25Robert Half

1,12639%

Ghost rate by sector · click a row for its top companies

▸Hospitality

77%

▸Retail

74%

▸Logistics

72%

▸Agriculture

66%

▸Telecommunications

63%

▸Automotive

59%

▸Construction

54%

▸Real Estate

52%

▸Manufacturing

52%

▸Sports Recreation

51%

▸Media

49%

▸Other

46%

Ghost rate by role function · click a row for its top companies

▸Logistics

76%

▸Trades

67%

▸Support

59%

▸Other

59%

▸Operations

52%

▸Sales

48%

▸Clinical

45%

▸Accounting

36%

▸Legal

35%

▸Engineering

35%

▸Finance

33%

▸Design

31%

Salary secrecy by sector · share of reqs hiding pay

Professional Services

79%

Energy

72%

Manufacturing

69%

Aerospace

68%

Retail

66%

Financial Services

66%

Technology

64%

Consumer Goods

63%

Construction

62%

Other

62%

Sports Recreation

62%

Hospitality

61%

Hall of Fame · cleanest hirers (confidence-adjusted)

1unitedtherapeutics.com74 reqs0.0%

2uottawa.ca641 reqs3.9%

3KinderCare Learning Companies84 reqs1.2%

4kay.com1,131 reqs5.3%

5byu.io72 reqs1.4%

6Speechify1,278 reqs6.2%

7Connections Academy324 reqs4.9%

8telecarecorp.com495 reqs5.9%

9Dayforce395 reqs5.6%

10PAM Health159 reqs4.4%

11cfins.com57 reqs1.8%

12ymcacv.org54 reqs1.9%

13nshe153 reqs5.2%

14Propel Schools51 reqs2.0%

15getaero.io108 reqs4.6%

16prescommunities.org80 reqs3.8%

17csn.edu154 reqs5.8%

18deutschetelekomitsolutions.sk117 reqs5.1%

19cordobacorp.com77 reqs3.9%

20State of New York - Mental Health, Office of62 reqs3.2%

21krafton.com75 reqs4.0%

22Raytheon355 reqs9.3%

23paypay.ne.jp85 reqs5.9%

24Rack Room Shoes/Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse135 reqs7.4%

25Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools51 reqs3.9%

How we measure ghost jobs

A posting is a ghost if it trips at least one of four signals, measured across active, de-duplicated reqs in our employer-direct index. We only rank companies with at least 50 active postings, so a handful of stale reqs can’t put a small employer on the board. This describes posting activity, not a company’s health or hiring intent — and a company leaves the board by closing filled roles and posting real salaries.

Long-open · past its cohort's p90 (min 14d)

Still open well past the typical time-to-fill for comparable roles — it has outlived ~90% of similar postings (same function & sector) that have already closed.

Repeatedly posted · 3+ duplicates

Duplicated or relisted many times (large dedupe cluster) — the same role kept perpetually "fresh".

Evergreen / always-hiring

"High-volume" / "always hiring" language — pipeline-building rather than one specific open role. (A missing salary alone is NOT counted as a ghost; salary transparency is tracked separately below.)