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Finseats vs. LinkedIn Jobs — which should you post on?
LinkedIn Jobs is the default first stop for most hiring managers — enormous reach, tied to the profiles and company page you already have. The catch is that the free tier is deliberately narrow and the paid tier is an auction with no published price.
| Finseats | LinkedIn Jobs | |
|---|---|---|
| Employer pricing | Flat $99 one-time for a highlighted 60-day listing. The price is on the page — no account, no quote, no sales call — and the listing is live within minutes of payment. | No published rate card. LinkedIn states only that “Pricing for our job posting tools vary depending on your hiring needs,” with cost driven by role, location and number of hires. Promoted jobs are pay-per-click: “The cost of each click comes from an algorithm that determines where your job is located and how many competing, similarly titled posts have been created within that market.” You set a daily or total budget instead of a price — their own worked example is “If you set a $10 daily budget and run a job post for 30 days, your total cost will be $300 or less.” Cards are charged “within 48 hours of closing your job, 30 days from the day you posted if the job is still active, or as soon as you reach a $500 balance.” |
| Job seeker access | Free, always. No account needed to search, filter or apply, and every listing deep-links to the employer's own official application — we never sit between a candidate and the employer. | Free to browse and apply, though a LinkedIn account is effectively required, and the Premium subscription that surfaces applicant insights and InMail is a paid upsell aimed squarely at job seekers. |
| Scope | Finance only, globally: banks, asset and wealth managers, hedge funds and quant shops, private equity and venture capital, fintech and payments, insurers, accounting and advisory firms, exchanges, regulators and central banks. | Every industry and every level, globally. Finance is one slice of a general-purpose network, so finance-specific filters (front office vs. middle office, licences, sector) are shallower than on a specialist index. |
| Signup required to post? | No — see the price and pay straight from /post-a-job. An account only matters afterwards, if you want to edit, hide or re-publish the listing. | Yes — a LinkedIn account, and your organisation must be selected during the posting flow, so the company page has to exist first. |
What makes LinkedIn Jobs different
- The free post is genuinely limited: “You can have only one free job post open at a time,” plus a capped number of free jobs in any 30-day window
- A free post stops being discoverable once it hits the free applicant limit, which LinkedIn says “typically ranges from 10 to 30, depending on the role” — it stays live on your page but drops out of search
- Promoted jobs are an auction, so your competitors' budgets set your cost — the opposite of a flat, quoted-up-front listing fee
- linkedin.com/robots.txt blocks every named AI-answer-engine crawler outright — ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, GPTBot and PerplexityBot are all "Disallow: /" — so a job posted there cannot be surfaced when a candidate asks ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity to find one. finseats.com/robots.txt allows all of the above.
Sources: business.linkedin.com/hire/post-jobs, business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/post-jobs/pricing, the LinkedIn Help article “Differences between free and promoted jobs” (linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a519737), and linkedin.com/robots.txt (crawler-blocking claim), all fetched 2026-09-01/09-04. Prices and free-tier limits change — we link to LinkedIn Jobs directly so you can check the current terms yourself: business.linkedin.com/hire/post-jobs.
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Post for a flat $99, no sales call
No quote request, no renewing ad budget, no employer subscription — see the price, pay once, and your listing is live for 60 days.