JobGhosting
Job posting? Job ghosting.

Costar

436 active postings tracked via workday · 182 flagged suspicious

Enterprise-scale employer · high-volume employer (legitimately reposts more)

12%
Ghosty now
of open roles have sat 90+ days
14%
Lifetime rate
of every role ever posted — most fill & close normally

These measure different things: ghosty now is a snapshot of roles open today; lifetime ratespans every req ever posted (most of which closed normally), so the two aren’t a before-and-after. For when the freeze actually built up, see the timeline below.

When the freeze built up

Each bar is how many of Costar’s currently-open reqs — ones flagged ghost or suspected right now — first went up that year. Taller recent bars mean the freeze is still growing; the left bar is the long-frozen tail.

1810flagged reqs≤2018201920202021202220232024120251812026

Describes the age of today’s open pile — not a historical rate. We’ve only tracked postings live since June 2026; earlier dates come from each req’s original post date.