EJM logo EconJobMarket®

Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,494
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,915
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 43,057
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,803
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,113
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 874
  • Number of ads currently posted: 98
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 814,160
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 93,023
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,522,238
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 250,110
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,586
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,150 (24.6%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,880 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,871 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,925 (9.2%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,109 (10.1%)

All candidates and jobs posted since inception

Details by year
Field
Candidates' primary
Candidates' other
Job postings
Candidates (primary field) per posting
Accounting
664
1,239
135
4.92
Any field
2,440
3,877
3,079
0.79
Applied microeconomics
742
1,588
133
5.58
Behavioral Economics
1,735
6,391
774
2.24
Business Economics
1,584
5,018
694
2.28
Computational Economics
418
3,110
382
1.09
Decision Sciences
213
1,721
190
1.12
Development; Growth
5,056
11,109
908
5.57
Econometrics
4,305
12,863
1,604
2.68
Economic History
766
2,367
253
3.03
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,170
6,020
986
4.23
Experimental Economics
939
4,002
482
1.95
Finance
9,006
11,310
1,531
5.88
Health; Education; Welfare
3,089
7,159
840
3.68
Industrial Organization
2,781
6,319
972
2.86
Insurance
72
593
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,899
5,733
749
2.54
International Trade
2,505
5,284
704
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,515
9,984
1,113
4.06
Law and Economics
359
2,064
351
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,199
10,538
1,492
4.83
Management, General
896
1,992
196
4.57
Management, Health Care
58
479
67
0.87
Management, Information Technology
174
634
79
2.20
Marketing
653
1,264
166
3.93
Microeconomic theory
358
628
59
6.07
Microeconomics
3,814
10,560
1,330
2.87
Operations Research
293
1,160
166
1.77
Organizational Behavior
203
1,045
122
1.66
Other
1,112
3,146
698
1.59
Political Economy
1,696
5,694
559
3.03
Public Economics
2,240
7,882
1,042
2.15
Real Estate
145
1,056
92
1.58
Statistics
342
2,354
350
0.98
Theory
874
2,957
346
2.53
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,040
4,041
466
2.23