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Web job boards, a million dollar industry

By January 27, 2008No Comments3 min read

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.

       

 

SiteListingsCost PerMonthly Revurl 

 

Crunchboard32$200$6,400http://www.crunchboard.com 

 

37Signals Jobs103$300$30,900http://jobs.37signals.com/ 

 

Authentic Jobs68$250$17,000http://www.authenticjobs.com/fulltime

 

Authentic Jobs33$75$2,475http://www.authenticjobs.com/freelance

 

Mashable21$50$1,050http://market.mashable.com 

 

ReadWriteWeb119$99$11,781http://jobs.readwriteweb.com/ 

 

GigaOM9$200$1,800http://gigaomjobs.com/a/jbb/find-jobs 

 

Centernetworks35$49$1,715http://www.centernetworks.com/jobsjob postings here are 2 months

 

VentureBeat21$200$4,200http://www.venturebeat.com 

 

MarketingPilgrim71$47$3,337http://jobs.marketingpilgrim.com/ 

 

 51.2$147$80,658  

 

  yearly$967,896  

Here is a link to the spreadsheet of all the sites I’ve researched.