{
  "title": "How long employers take to reply to job applications",
  "url": "https://applystead.com/research/employer-reply-times",
  "publisher": "Applystead",
  "published": "2026-11-06",
  "updated": "2026-11-06",
  "capturedAt": "2026-11-06T03:29:12.437Z",
  "applicationsSent": {
    "from": "2026-10-05",
    "to": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "citation": "Applystead, “How long employers take to reply to job applications”, updated November 6, 2026. https://applystead.com/research/employer-reply-times",
  "definitions": {
    "population": "Job applications Applystead sent for its members whose submission was confirmed with evidence and whose replies to the application's email address reach Applystead: tens of thousands of applications.",
    "reply": "The first reply written by a person at the employer, such as a recruiter or hiring manager. Automated acknowledgements, application-system mail and rejections are not counted.",
    "window": "Only first replies that arrived within 14 days of the application are counted; every application in the date range had 14 full days for a reply.",
    "wait": "From the time the application was sent to the time the first reply from a person arrived. Medians are rounded to whole days; one in four replies took longer than the 75th-percentile wait and one in ten longer than the 90th.",
    "within": "The share of the group's first replies that arrived within the given number of days, as a whole percent.",
    "rules": "A group is published only with at least 100 first replies from at least 25 different members and 15 different employers. No figure is given per employer, per application system or per person."
  },
  "groups": [
    {
      "key": "all",
      "dimension": "All applications",
      "label": "All applications",
      "medianWaitDays": 2,
      "wait75thPercentileAtLeastDays": 4,
      "wait90thPercentileAtLeastDays": 6,
      "repliedWithinDaysPercent": {
        "1": 32,
        "2": 51,
        "3": 66,
        "4": 74,
        "5": 81,
        "6": 86,
        "7": 91,
        "8": 91,
        "9": 92,
        "10": 92,
        "11": 93,
        "12": 95,
        "13": 97,
        "14": 100
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "seniority-mid",
      "dimension": "Seniority",
      "label": "Mid-level titles",
      "medianWaitDays": 1,
      "wait75thPercentileAtLeastDays": 3,
      "wait90thPercentileAtLeastDays": 8,
      "repliedWithinDaysPercent": {
        "1": 40,
        "2": 60,
        "3": 75,
        "4": 79,
        "5": 83,
        "6": 85,
        "7": 90,
        "8": 90,
        "9": 90,
        "10": 91,
        "11": 92,
        "12": 94,
        "13": 95,
        "14": 100
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "workplace-remote",
      "dimension": "Remote or on-site",
      "label": "Jobs marked remote",
      "medianWaitDays": 2,
      "wait75thPercentileAtLeastDays": 3,
      "wait90thPercentileAtLeastDays": 6,
      "repliedWithinDaysPercent": {
        "1": 33,
        "2": 49,
        "3": 65,
        "4": 75,
        "5": 81,
        "6": 85,
        "7": 90,
        "8": 90,
        "9": 91,
        "10": 92,
        "11": 92,
        "12": 94,
        "13": 96,
        "14": 100
      }
    }
  ],
  "withheld": [
    "Role family",
    "Employer industry",
    "Weekday sent"
  ]
}