JobClayFree tool
Job board revenue calculator
Covering the software takes one or two sales a month. The hard part is making any sale at all.
Most boards that published their numbers sold a handful of posts in their first year.
What a month and a first year look like
| Paid posts a month | 1 Cautious | 4 Middle | 10 Ambitious |
|---|---|---|---|
| One post nets | $144.38 | $144.38 | $144.38 |
| Monthly revenue | $149.00 | $596.00 | $1,490.00 |
| Card fees | $4.62 | $18.48 | $46.20 |
| Plan cost: Starter | $49.00 | $49.00 | $49.00 |
| Monthly net | $95.38 | $528.52 | $1,394.80 |
| First-year net 9 selling months after 3 without a sale, less a year of the plan. | $711.42 | $4,609.68 | $12,406.20 |
- Cautious, 1 a month. Still above the 0.25 to 0.6 paid posts a month that the published operator accounts show (read November 3, 2026).
- Middle, 4 a month. Vendor material only: no board that published its numbers reports it (read November 3, 2026).
- Ambitious, 10 a month. Vendor material only: no board that published its numbers reports it (read November 3, 2026).
This is arithmetic on the numbers you enter, not a prediction. It runs to the end of the first year and no further.
Paid posts a month that cover each plan
Card fees included, nothing else counted. Free costs nothing.
Free
Nothing: the plan is free
Starter
1 paid post
Growth
1 paid post
Scale
3 paid posts
A board that opens with 500 jobs needs Starter or a plan above it. See how many jobs yours would start with in the niche explorer. Then see whether Google can read your jobs: Check a job page’s markup.
Start the board, then see if it sells
The Free plan needs no card.
What posts sell for
| Segment | Median | Range in the sample | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remote and tech | $299 | $149–$447 | Medium |
| Design, marketing and media | About $150 | $80–$299 | Medium |
| Healthcare and dental | $405 | $290–$499 | Low (three rows) |
| Non-profit | About $125 | $95–$260 | Medium |
| Associations (member price) | About $393 | $290–$600 | Medium |
| Local and regional | About $99 | $99–$149 | Low (undated snippets) |
| India, large general portals | ₹1,450 (about $15) | ₹650–₹2,999 | Low (volume portals, not niche boards) |
Only about a dozen boards were read on their own pricing pages, so the low-confidence rows are directional.
Every assumption, with its source and date
- Card fee
- 2.9% plus $0.30 for each successful domestic card payment, deducted from every sale.
- High: Stripe’s own page. Read November 3, 2026.
- Stripe pricing
- International cards
- 1.5% more, when the switch is on, applied to every card. Stripe adds another 1% when a currency has to be converted; this page does not.
- High: Stripe’s own page. Read November 3, 2026.
- Stripe pricing
- Exchange rates
- Prefilled from the European Central Bank’s euro reference rates for November 2, 2026, crossed to the dollar, and hidden 90 days after they were read. Enter your own rate if you sell at another.
- High for the reference; the rate you are paid at will differ. Read November 3, 2026.
- European Central Bank, euro reference rates
- Price per post
- The presets are $99, $149, $299 and $449. Two prices recur in the rate cards read, $149 and $299; Niceboard says its average job sells for $149 but gives no date or sample.
- Medium to low: about a dozen boards read on their own pricing pages. Read November 3, 2026.
- Remote OK,Authentic Jobs,RemoteJobs.org,Mediabistro,AACN,NICET,American Association of Endodontists,Kardow, job board examples,Internshala,Niceboard communities
- Paid posts a month
- Three scenarios, never one number. The three operators who published numbers sold 0.25 to 0.6 paid posts a month: about 15 paying employers in two years, about five paid posts in roughly 20 months, and $92.50 in a first month of charging across two boards. Survivors dominate both sets, and the big outliers do not transfer.
- Low: a handful of accounts, told by the people who kept going. Read November 3, 2026.
- HackerNoon, 2026,Indie Hustle,Indie Hackers
- Months before the first sale
- Three by default, and you can set 0 to 12. Vendors say three to six months; one operator saw a first sale one to two months after starting to charge.
- Low: vendor claims and one account. Read November 3, 2026.
- Cavuno, job board monetization,Indie Hustle
- Featured upgrade
- Upgrades add a flat $50 to $150 over a standard post. The share of posts that buy one is yours to enter: no source gives it, so there is no default.
- Medium for the price; none for the share. Read November 3, 2026.
- Authentic Jobs,RemoteJobs.org
- Ten-pack
- Ten-packs sell at 25% to 30% off on association boards. Enter the pack’s price and the packs sold a month.
- Low: two association boards. Read November 3, 2026.
- American Association of Endodontists,AACN
- Job seeker memberships
- Prices run from $5 a week (Remote Rocketship) to about $24 every four weeks (FlexJobs). Seeker revenue is thin at small scale: one startup board had about 20 paying subscribers on about 30,000 monthly visits in February 2023.
- Low: two prices and one board. Read November 3, 2026.
- Kardow, job board examples,Indie Hustle
- Backfill clicks
- Clicks a month times a rate per click. The newest public rates are 2022 figures of $0.20 to $0.70 a click, quoted second-hand, and Indeed’s publisher programme has been paused for new applicants since October 2022.
- Low: 2022 data, second-hand. Read November 3, 2026.
- Cavuno, affiliate programs