I’ve been thinking about job boards and discussing them with some of the others in RefreshMiami a bunch lately. I know they burst onto the scene years ago (I’m talking niche job boards). So it turns out that from my 10 minute research, these features on sites (none I know of are standalone sites), are grossing almost a million dollars a year!
The top earner in the category is 37Signals Job board with over $30k/month in earnings. The second biggest earner of the bunch is not who I had expected, it is Cameron Moll’s AuthenticJobs, which is generating close to $20k/month. The AuthenticJobs is really impressive considering its a one man shop running it. Hats off Cam for making such a successful job board. Here is a link to the spreadsheet below.
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Site |
Listings |
Cost Per |
Monthly Rev |
url |
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Crunchboard |
32 |
$200 |
$6,400 |
http://www.crunchboard.com |
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37Signals Jobs |
103 |
$300 |
$30,900 |
http://jobs.37signals.com/ |
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Authentic Jobs |
68 |
$250 |
$17,000 |
http://www.authenticjobs.com/ |
fulltime |
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Authentic Jobs |
33 |
$75 |
$2,475 |
http://www.authenticjobs.com/ |
freelance |
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Mashable |
21 |
$50 |
$1,050 |
http://market.mashable.com |
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ReadWriteWeb |
119 |
$99 |
$11,781 |
http://jobs.readwriteweb.com/ |
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GigaOM |
9 |
$200 |
$1,800 |
http://gigaomjobs.com/a/jbb/find-jobs |
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Centernetworks |
35 |
$49 |
$1,715 |
http://www.centernetworks.com/jobs |
job postings here are 2 months |
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VentureBeat |
21 |
$200 |
$4,200 |
http://www.venturebeat.com |
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MarketingPilgrim |
71 |
$47 |
$3,337 |
http://jobs.marketingpilgrim.com/ |
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51.2 |
$147 |
$80,658 |
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yearly |
$967,896 |
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Here is a link to the spreadsheet of all the sites I’ve researched.
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