Stop Paying Per Board for the Same Job

Most job distribution pricing still pretends each board is a separate product. Post the same req to Indeed, LinkedIn, and three niche sites, and you pay five times for one hiring need. Finance calls it channel spend. Operators feel it as a tax on doing the right thing.

That model made sense when every board was a hand-built portal and every connector was a project. It does not make sense when the hard work is keeping one job honest across destinations. You should price the job, not the fan-out.

What an active job-month actually is

In JobGorilla, an active job-month is any distinct job ID that was live for any part of the calendar month. Unlimited creates, updates, and closes for that job in-month. Multi-board fan-out counts as one job, not one unit per board. Overages are published, not negotiated in a dark room after you already expanded.

• Starter: $149/mo with 15 active job-months, then $7 each
• Growth: $499/mo with 100 active job-months, then $4 each
• Scale: $1299/mo with 500 active job-months, then $2.50 each

Why this changes behavior

When every extra board multiplies cost, teams under-distribute. They stay on two majors, skip the long tail, and still fight ghost listings because closes never left the spreadsheet. When the unit is the job, wider honest coverage gets cheaper relative to chaos. You stop optimizing for "how few portals can we afford" and start optimizing for "is this inventory true and findable."

“If reach costs more every time you add a board, your pricing is fighting your hiring strategy.”

— JobGorilla Dispatch

Compare invoices, not slogans

Line up last quarter's multipost fees, agency markups, and recruiter hours spent babysitting portals. Then price the same open req count as active job-months. The spreadsheet usually settles the argument faster than a product tour.

1. Count distinct jobs that were live last month
2. Add what you paid to keep them on every board
3. Add the soft cost of stale closes and duplicate posts
4. Put the same volume on consumption pricing and compare

Distribution should reward accurate inventory, not punish breadth. If your current bill does the opposite, talk to JobGorilla and run the numbers on a plan that matches how you actually hire.