Important to know
These FAQs apply to jobs posted with a personal LinkedIn member account and not a Recruiter, Recruiter Lite, or Talent Hub account.
After posting a pay-per-click job on LinkedIn, you’ll be charged based on several defined conditions. Your charge amount depends on the budget you’ve set for your job posts and the number of views your post receives.
You can edit your daily budget at any time. However, for any day you edit your daily budget, you’ll be charged based on the highest budget that you set for that day.
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The daily budget is based on UTC timing, and resets accordingly.
When your daily budget is reached, we'll remove your job from active marketing. The job will still be searchable and can still receive applicants. The marketing will refresh the next day along with your budget.
To increase the number of qualified candidates who see your job, we may adjust your daily budget to meet demand. You’ll never spend more than your weekly max. Your weekly max is equal to 7 days of your selected daily average budget.
Once your total budget spend is reached, the job will automatically pause and you can choose to add more total budget to continue the job post or close the job. You can edit your total budget at any time.
Once your total budget spend is reached, the job will automatically pause and you can choose to add more total budget to continue the job post or close the job.
You can set a total budget for your job post to specify the maximum amount you’d like to be charged. Once your total budget spend is reached, the job will automatically pause and you can choose to add more total budget to continue the job post or close the job.
After posting a pay-per-click job on LinkedIn, your default payment method on file will be charged when one of the following conditions is met:
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You’ll be charged every 30 days from the date of your first job post, and your billing cycle will begin on this date. Any accrued balance for subsequent job posts will be applied to your billing cycle for as long as the job remains open.
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You’ll be charged within 24 hours if your total account balance across all jobs is greater than or equal to $500.
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You’ll be charged within 24 hours if all jobs are closed. If there is at least one job still open, you won’t be charged immediately.
Important to know
The date of your billing cycle will reset after all jobs are closed or suspended. If you post a new job, a new billing cycle will begin on this date.
Your charge amount depends on your job posts’ budget and the number of views from candidates. Daily charge calculations are based on UTC time and resets each day at 12AM UTC.
For jobs located within the European Economic Area (EEA), you won’t be charged for clicks that come from outside the EEA. For all other jobs, you won’t be charged for clicks outside your country. You only pay for job views by candidates and aren’t billed for views from LinkedIn employees or the job poster. As a result, you might see a discrepancy in the number of views and the amount charged.
We'll always charge the current default payment method on file. If you change your default payment method at any time before the end of your billing cycle, your new card on file will be charged.
Important to know
The total spend of the job posting doesn’t include promotions or discounts as those are applied once the member is charged and the payment is processed.
The higher your budget, the more your job post is marketed into newsfeeds and emails of members that match the information listed in your job description.
At the end of your billing cycle, you’ll receive your bill via email. You can also view and print receipts from your billing history page.
The number depends on job title, industry, location, and other factors. As some of these factors are not constant across all job posts is calculated based on the performance of similar job posts on LinkedIn.
You can save up to 35% by purchasing the job post budget in advance.
We'll share your job across LinkedIn and through email to professionals whose skills and location match the job. Anyone on LinkedIn can find your post through search, and if you have a LinkedIn Page, it will appear there too. You can also share your job via social media.
For jobs located within the European Economic Area (EEA), you won’t be charged for clicks that come from outside the EEA. For all other jobs, you won’t be charged for clicks outside your country.
When you post a job, you can select how you want to receive applicant information. You can collect it on LinkedIn and get email updates with new applicants. Alternatively you can route applicants to an external website to apply, such as your career site or ATS.
The cost per click (CPC) for each job fluctuates per day based on the overall marketplace and activity. This includes the job location, job title, and additional factors such as other job posters looking for similar candidates in the area. Because some of these factors are not a constant, the CPC cannot be determined until the job is posted and generates some activity.
Once the posting is live, you'll have access to the Manage tab for your posting where you can see views, applies, and more.
We’ll never charge you more than your budget (excluding any applicable taxes).
For any day that you edit your average daily budget, you'll be charged based on the highest budget that you set for that day.
To make your job post as competitive as possible and to maximize your allotted daily spend, unused daily budget will be rolled over into the next day.
Important to know
If a job promotion payment fails, all affected promotions immediately stop. You need to repost the job to continue.
Sometimes your daily budget will go unused for a number of reasons. When this happens, it will be rolled over into the next day to maximize your allotted spend and make your job post as competitve as possible.
Your job will be posted until:
- your total budget is reached (for total budget jobs only)
- you close the job, which you can do at any time
- after six months when the job automatically closes
To stop spending, you must close the job. You'll only be charged for views received on the days your job was open.
Currently, there isn't a feature to pause a job post on demand. The available options are to close the job at any time, or to set a total budget for a promoted job, which will cause the job post to pause automatically once the budget limit is reached. You can then decide to add more budget or close the job entirely.
If you repost a free job within 7 days, you'll be required to promote it. Job posts with the same title and company as a previous job post are ineligible to be posted within 7 days for free.
Once a job post has been promoted, it cannot go back to a free job. You will have to close the job post and post a new free job.
The minimum and maximum budget for promotion depends on the role being promoted.
If the charges for existing job postings cannot be processed, current jobs will close.
When you have credits available in your account, these credits are used first for any accrued charges. You will only be charged if the credits are insufficient to cover the total cost.
When you have credits available in your account, these credits are used first for any accrued charges. You will only be charged if the credits are insufficient to cover the total cost.