Saturday and Sunday together carry 2.8% of new US job postings. Monday to Friday each carry between 17.5% and 21.9%, and no weekday wins reliably: Monday and Tuesday were each the busiest day in 5 of 12 weeks. JobShifu measures this by crawling employer applicant-tracking systems directly rather than buying a job feed, so the time on each posting is the one the employer's own system gave it.
Measured across 1,131,492 new postings from 10,265 employers, August 3 to October 25, 2026. On weekdays, 66.2% went up between 10 AM and 6 PM Eastern.
By day of the week
Share of postings pools every posting, so a large employer counts for more. Counting each employer once gives every employer with at least 20 postings in the window (3,850 of them) the same weight, and busiest day is the share of those employers that posted most on that day.
| Day | Postings | Share of postings | Employers posting | Counting each employer once | Busiest day for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 213,816 | 18.9% | 6,583 | 17.8% | 16.2% |
| Tuesday | 248,270 | 21.9% | 7,060 | 20.9% | 26.6% |
| Wednesday | 218,836 | 19.3% | 7,062 | 20.4% | 22% |
| Thursday | 220,141 | 19.5% | 7,056 | 19.9% | 19.6% |
| Friday | 198,322 | 17.5% | 7,037 | 18.9% | 15% |
| Saturday | 15,947 | 1.4% | 1,804 | 1.1% | 0.3% |
| Sunday | 16,160 | 1.4% | 1,453 | 0.9% | 0.3% |
Why one weekday can look busier than it is
The busiest single day in the window was Tuesday, October 6, with 28,364 new postings, and 30.7% of them came from one employer. A handful of large employers publish in monthly or weekly batches, and a batch that lands on the same weekday each time is enough to lift that weekday's pooled share by a couple of points. That is why the per-employer columns sit next to the pooled one. Counted that way, Tuesday to Thursday each carry 19.9% to 20.9%, and 26.6% of employers post most on Tuesday: a mild midweek lean, not a best day.
Week by week
Each row is one week, Monday to Sunday, and each cell is that day's share of the week's new postings. The busiest day of each week is in bold. Across 12 weeks the busiest day was: Monday 5, Tuesday 5, Wednesday 1, Thursday 1. The quietest weekday in the window was Monday, September 7, with 3,207 postings against an average Monday of 17,818: a weekday holiday empties a day as thoroughly as a weekend does.
| Week of | Postings | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 3 | 84,650 | 19.3% | 27% | 17.6% | 18.2% | 15.5% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| August 10 | 77,622 | 21.3% | 20.3% | 18.1% | 19.3% | 17.4% | 1.6% | 1.9% |
| August 17 | 79,051 | 21.1% | 20.4% | 19.5% | 19.1% | 17.2% | 1.4% | 1.3% |
| August 24 | 86,485 | 20% | 19.7% | 18.9% | 20% | 18.5% | 1.5% | 1.3% |
| August 31 | 102,498 | 18.4% | 27% | 19.1% | 17.9% | 15.1% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| September 7 | 81,771 | 3.9% | 24.5% | 24.3% | 22.6% | 21.5% | 1.8% | 1.3% |
| September 14 | 98,384 | 21.1% | 20.7% | 19.2% | 18.8% | 17.8% | 1.3% | 1.1% |
| September 21 | 104,713 | 22.3% | 18.4% | 20.6% | 18.7% | 15.9% | 1.3% | 2.8% |
| September 28 | 101,900 | 20.3% | 18.8% | 17.9% | 21.4% | 19.1% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| October 5 | 108,725 | 18.5% | 26.1% | 17.5% | 19.2% | 16.2% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| October 12 | 98,591 | 19.3% | 20.6% | 19.4% | 19.2% | 18.7% | 1.5% | 1.3% |
| October 19 | 107,100 | 19.6% | 19.8% | 20.4% | 19.5% | 18% | 1.4% | 1.3% |
By time of day
Weekday postings only, by the hour they went up in US Eastern time. Postings bunch into the working day: 66.2% between 10 AM and 6 PM, with the busiest hour starting at 4 PM.
| Eastern time | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 12 AM to 2 AM | 26,152 | 2.3% |
| 2 AM to 4 AM | 13,797 | 1.2% |
| 4 AM to 6 AM | 12,389 | 1.1% |
| 6 AM to 8 AM | 17,496 | 1.6% |
| 8 AM to 10 AM | 73,369 | 6.7% |
| 10 AM to 12 PM | 155,100 | 14.1% |
| 12 PM to 2 PM | 186,547 | 16.9% |
| 2 PM to 4 PM | 194,256 | 17.7% |
| 4 PM to 6 PM | 191,974 | 17.5% |
| 6 PM to 8 PM | 126,797 | 11.5% |
| 8 PM to 10 PM | 66,721 | 6.1% |
| 10 PM to 12 AM | 34,785 | 3.2% |
What this means for a job search
The day matters less than the habit. With the weekdays this even, there is no single morning that catches most new roles. Checking once each weekday catches every new role within a day of it going up, whichever day you pick, and by 6 PM Eastern about 79% of that day's postings are already up. A Monday check has missed very little over the weekend. What does move the odds is applying while a posting is new: why that is, and what still works after the first few days, is in why 244 applicants beat your resume before it was read. How long postings then stay up is its own report: how long job postings stay open.
What a rate cannot tell you
A rate describes a market. It cannot tell you whether the posting you are looking at is one of them. That is a different question, and it is settled by one requisition's own crawl history: the date the posting was first seen, whether the same requisition was listed before, and how long it has been up since.
Check one posting → · Search open jobs → · See roles as employers open them →
Common questions
What day of the week are most jobs posted?
Monday to Friday, in close to equal measure. Each weekday carried between 17.5% and 21.9% of the 1,131,492 new US postings JobShifu saw from August 3 to October 25, 2026, and no weekday won reliably: Monday and Tuesday were each the busiest day in 5 of 12 weeks.
Are jobs posted on weekends?
Hardly any. Saturday and Sunday together carried 2.8% of new US postings, and almost no employer had a weekend day as its busiest. A job search checked on Monday morning has missed very little.
What time of day are jobs posted?
During US working hours. On weekdays, 66.2% of new postings went up between 10 AM and 6 PM Eastern, the busiest hour started at 4 PM, and 6.2% went up before 8 AM.
How this was measured
The weekday and hour are the employer's, not the crawler's. Each posting is placed by the time its employer's job system gave it, converted to US Eastern time, and counted only when JobShifu first saw it within a day of that time. That second rule keeps out postings whose stated time is a reposting date or an old requisition picked up late, which would otherwise pile into whatever day the crawl reached them.
Postings that carry only a date are left out, not guessed. About a fifth of US postings come with a date and no time. Stored as midnight UTC, that date falls on the previous evening in New York, so converted naively every Monday posting would read as a Sunday one. Only postings with a real time of day are counted.
US postings only, from employer-run applicant tracking systems, under the same serving rules the product uses, over the 12 complete weeks from August 3 to October 25, 2026. The per-employer view counts employers with at least 20 postings in the window. The same rows refresh weekly, so this page moves with the window.
How long postings stay open → · How often postings are relisted →
Data and citation
Every figure above comes from one snapshot file, published so the numbers can be checked, replotted or reused: posting-days.json (JSON, updated 2026-10-28). It is the same file this page is built from, so there is no version of these numbers that is not in it.
License. CC BY 4.0. Use the figures anywhere, including commercially, as long as JobShifu is credited.
Cite as. JobShifu (2026). When new US job postings are published, by weekday and hour. https://jobshifu.com/research/when-jobs-are-posted