Average Time to Hire by Industry

Time to fill tracks the duration between job going live and candidate acceptance, so you can improve the accuracy of estimates. Time to hire focuses solely on the time it takes for an applicant to move through your recruitment stages, so recruiters can identify bottlenecks in the process and improve efficiency.

We calculate time to hire by taking the duration between candidate application to offer acceptance. It is often conflated with time to fill but the two are quite different in the insights they can provide on your hiring processes.

Time to hire allows you to track how fast you hire the right candidate once they enter your pipeline. A faster hiring process is not only better for your team, but for your candidates— reducing time in the interview stage by just 5 days can improve candidate Net Promoter Score (NPS) by 20%.

We’ve taken time to hire data from over 160,000 hires across the previous 2 years to provide enough data points for statistical significance when broken down by industry group and seniority level.

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