LinkedIn Job Posting Cost: Pricing, Steps and Examples

A LinkedIn job posting costs whatever budget you set. You can post a job for free or promote it with a daily or total budget. You pay for views by candidates, and the cost per click varies by role and location. LinkedIn doesn't publish a fixed price. Last updated: October 2026.

Sources: LinkedIn Help Billing for promoted job posts FAQ, Differences between free and promoted jobs, Job posting credits and promotional offers, and LinkedIn's Hiring Pro pricing overview, all retrieved October 3, 2026.

Free or promoted: the two types of LinkedIn job posts

From a personal LinkedIn account, you post a job either for free or as a promoted job. The free option works for a single role with a few applicants. As soon as you need more reach or more than a handful of applications, you end up promoting.

Two rules to know up front. Once a job is promoted, it can't go back to being free; you'd have to close it and post a new one. And if you repost a free job with the same title and company within 7 days, you'll have to promote it. Sources: Differences between free and promoted jobs, Invite applicants to apply, and Billing for promoted job posts FAQ, retrieved October 3, 2026.

LinkedIn job posting cost: daily budget and billing

Promoted jobs run on a budget you set, and LinkedIn bills for views. According to LinkedIn, clicks and views are one and the same. The cost per click depends on the job's location, the job title, and how many similar posts compete in that market, which is why it isn't known until the post is live and getting views.

Daily budget or total budget

• Daily budget: the job stays active and bills up to your daily budget until you close it or it closes automatically after 6 months. If part of a day's budget goes unused, LinkedIn rolls it over to the next day. Depending on your account, you can also choose the pacing: "Daily average" spreads spending more evenly, "Daily max" spends more early on so the job reaches candidates sooner.
• Total budget: the job runs until the budget is spent, then pauses. You decide whether to add budget or close it. Paused jobs aren't visible to job seekers, but you keep access to your applicant list.

LinkedIn's own example: set a $10 daily budget, run the job for 30 days, and you pay $300 or less, depending on reach. LinkedIn doesn't publish a minimum price. According to its help pages, the minimum and maximum budget depend on the role, the applicant forecast, and whether you've promoted a job before. LinkedIn recommends a daily budget when you post. If you go below it, you may lose access to AI-assisted features.

What you don't pay for

• Clicks from outside the European Economic Area for jobs located in the EEA. For all other jobs, clicks from outside your country.
• Views by you as the poster and by LinkedIn employees.
• According to LinkedIn's pricing page, also multiple views from the same person and views from people who aren't signed in.

When LinkedIn charges you

Your default payment method is charged when one of these happens: every 30 days from your first job post, within 24 hours once your balance across all jobs reaches $500 (for new customers this threshold may be lower at first), or within 24 hours after all your jobs are closed. Daily charges are calculated in UTC and reset at midnight UTC. If you change your daily budget, you're charged for that day based on the highest budget you set. There's no pause button: to stop spending, close the job, or set a total budget from the start. Sources: Billing for promoted job posts FAQ, Promoted job posts, Edit the budget for your job post, and Hiring Pro pricing overview, retrieved October 3, 2026.

Credits and discounts

LinkedIn says it has discontinued the discount for buying job post budget in advance. Credits still exist in other forms: promotional credits that are used before your payment method, hiring credits with eligible Premium All-in-One subscriptions (they expire after 12 months), and annual job posting credits with Hiring Pro. If you hire at scale, LinkedIn offers a contract option called Job Slots. Sources: Job posting credits and promotional offers and Purchase a pre-paid job posting discount, retrieved October 3, 2026. What the full recruiting licenses cost is covered in LinkedIn Recruiter cost.

How to keep costs under control

• Use a total budget for your first promoted job so spending stops on its own.
• LinkedIn recommends keeping a job open for at least 5 days before you judge it.
• Close the job once you have enough qualified applicants. You only pay for the days it was open.
• Check views, applicants, and spend under "Manage job posts".

How to post a job on LinkedIn in 6 steps

Here's the desktop flow according to LinkedIn Help. Labels may differ slightly in your account.

1. Click "Jobs" at the top of your homepage, then "Post a job".
2. Enter the job title and click "Continue". Use a standard title that candidates actually search for.
3. Write the job description yourself or let "Draft with AI" create a draft, then click "Continue". Check the draft sentence by sentence.
4. Fill in the "Job settings": screening questions, rejection settings, how you receive applicants (on LinkedIn or via an external website), and the #Hiring frame for your profile.
5. If you plan to promote, add a payment method and set the budget via "Edit". Any free trial or promotional credit for your first promoted job shows up here.
6. Review the order details with daily and total budget and click "Promote job" or "Post without promoting".

You specify on the job description page whether the role is on-site, hybrid, or remote. To end the post, go to "Jobs", "Manage job posts", the "More" icon next to the job, and "Close job". Job posts can't be deleted, only closed. Sources: Post a job on LinkedIn, Post remote jobs on LinkedIn, and Close a job post on LinkedIn, retrieved October 3, 2026.

3 LinkedIn job post examples with structure

LinkedIn recommends a standard job title, specific responsibilities, clearly stated requirements, linking your company's LinkedIn Page, and listing benefits. That gives you six blocks: title, opening, responsibilities, requirements, offer, next step. The three examples are made up and show how the blocks change from role to role. Source: Write an effective job description, retrieved October 3, 2026.

Example 1: Inside sales

• Title: Inside Sales Representative
• Opening: You'll look after 120 existing accounts in industrial machinery and be their first point of contact for quotes.
• Responsibilities: prepare quotes, handle requests from field sales, enter orders in the ERP.
• Requirements: business background, ideally some experience in technical sales.
• Offer: [salary range], flexible hours, two remote days a week.
• Next step: apply on LinkedIn with your resume; we reply within a week.

Example 2: Marketing intern

• Title: Marketing Intern, part-time (16 to 20 hours)
• Opening: Help us build the newsletter and LinkedIn presence of a 40-person software company.
• Responsibilities: plan posts, write copy, report on metrics monthly.
• Requirements: currently enrolled, strong writing skills.
• Offer: [hourly rate], flexible scheduling during exams.
• Next step: answer three screening questions, then a video call.

Example 3: Remote engineering role

• Title: Senior Backend Developer, remote (US)
• Opening: You'll own the APIs of our booking platform, which processes [number] bookings a day.
• Responsibilities: design APIs, run code reviews, share on-call duty.
• Requirements: several years with [language], experience with distributed systems.
• Offer: [salary range], work from anywhere in the US, two team meetups a year.
• Next step: apply through our careers page, linked in the post.

Sharing your job post in the feed

When you post a job, LinkedIn notifies your coworkers and 1st-degree connections so they can share it with their networks. If you select your company from the list while posting, the job also appears on your LinkedIn Page. If you link the job to your profile, anyone who visits your profile sees it. You can turn on the #Hiring frame right in the "Job settings". Sources: Job post visibility and Post a job on LinkedIn, retrieved October 3, 2026.

In our experience, a post of your own does more than a plain share. Write two or three sentences about why the role exists and who'll join the team, and add the link to the job below. Ask two people on the team to reshare it with a sentence of their own.

Job post or active sourcing?

A job post waits for people who are currently looking. Many strong candidates aren't, and they'll never see your post. Active sourcing flips that: you search for matching backgrounds yourself and reach out directly.

You don't have to choose. Many teams post the job and reach out to specific people at the same time; the job post becomes what the message points to. How to do that is covered in Active sourcing on LinkedIn.

Recruiting, sales, and job search: what CompLeadly handles

You post jobs on LinkedIn yourself; CompLeadly doesn't do that. The desktop app, which runs on your own computer, handles the direct outreach around the job post.

• Recruiting: with your own Recruiter license, Recruiter Lite searches, pipelines, or saved searches become the target audience. From Basic, one workflow per role runs profile visits, connection requests with a first message, and follow-ups that stop as soon as a candidate replies. Point to your job post in the message. More on the CompLeadly for recruiters page.
• Sales: an open role is a trigger. A company hiring a head of sales is often expanding its sales team. A people search or Sales Navigator search for the decision-makers at those companies becomes a CompLeadly target audience for connection requests, openers, and follow-ups.
• Job seekers: behind every job post is a team. A people search for hiring managers and recruiters at the companies you want to work for becomes your target audience. Profile visits, connection requests with a note, opener, and follow-up run in the free version, with daily limits such as 2 connection requests and 1 follow-up per day.

You start with a 10-day trial with all features. After that, your access switches automatically to the free version with basic features and daily limits. Plans and prices are on the pricing page.