Average Time to Fill by Industry

The duration between job going live and offer acceptance, filterable by industry.

How to interpret this data

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Definition

We calculate time to fill by taking the duration between job going live and candidate acceptance.

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Why it's important

With a time to fill benchmark, you can understand when you need to start hiring for a role to meet your deadline for having a new hire in seat. You can also set expectations across your organization for the pace of hiring.

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Methodology

This report is based on data from over 160,000 hires across the previous 3 years to provide enough data points for statistical significance when broken down by industry group and seniority level.

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Learn more

For more information on how we group and classify by industry, view our methodology notes here.

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