We Work Remotely pricing for employers and what a year of listings costs

We Work Remotely pricing for employers starts at $299 for one job listing that stays live for 30 days, according to its own support page. Optional upgrade packages sit on top, and third-party pricing listings put the totals at about $358, $398 and $448 per post. Listings renew automatically after 30 days unless you switch renewal off.

So one listing costs between $299 and roughly $450. What matters more is the yearly number, because the per-listing model is cheap for one hire and expensive for twelve. Below is each part of the price, the cost of a year of hiring at three team sizes, and when a flat plan is the better buy.

How much does it cost to post a job on We Work Remotely?

A standard We Work Remotely job listing costs $299 and runs for 30 days. That is the base price on the board's official support page. We Work Remotely does not publish a free tier for employers, and it is free for job seekers, so the employer pays for every listing.

Here is the price structure as far as it is publicly documented. We checked its support page and employer FAQ and cross-checked the upgrade prices against third-party pricing listings in October 2026.

Upgrade names and exact contents change from time to time, so treat the upgrade rows as a snapshot. The $299 base price is the stable number to budget around.

Does We Work Remotely auto-renew job listings?

Yes. We Work Remotely listings stay live for 30 days and then renew automatically. Its employer FAQ says you can turn auto-renewal off at any time and that you get a reminder email 5 days before the renewal date. If nobody on the team acts on that email, the listing is charged again.

This is the part of the price that surprises people. A senior engineering search that takes 75 days crosses two renewal dates, so one hire can mean three charges. A role you already filled can renew too if the reminder goes to a recruiter who left or a shared inbox nobody reads.

What a year of We Work Remotely listings costs

Per-listing pricing is easy to understand for one role. The yearly total depends on how many roles you open and how long searches run. Below we assume half of all searches run past 30 days and need one renewal, and we use the $299 base price with no upgrades. Real spend is higher for any team that buys visibility packages.

For comparison, a flat RemoteBoard plan billed yearly is $588 for Starter (3 active roles), $1,788 for Growth (10 active roles, 3 featured slots a month) and $4,188 for Scale (30 active roles, 10 featured slots a month and 10 seats). The plan counts how many roles are live at the same time, not how many you post in a year, and roles stay up while they are open.

If you hire one person a year and fill the role inside 30 days, a single $299 listing is cheaper than any subscription, ours included. The math turns once you hire about four people a year, and by twelve the gap is several thousand dollars. The We Work Remotely alternative page puts the two models side by side with a full feature table.

Is We Work Remotely worth it for employers?

We Work Remotely is worth it for occasional hiring. It has run since 2011 and built a large, loyal audience of remote workers who check it daily, so one listing reaches a lot of qualified people quickly. For a single urgent role, $299 is a fair price for that reach.

It is less of a fit when remote hiring is constant. Every role is a new purchase, every long search adds renewals, and someone has to write and paste each listing by hand and remember to take it down. Teams that use Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby end up keeping two copies of every job in sync.

Signs a per-listing board has stopped being the cheap option:

• You opened more than four remote roles in the last twelve months.
• You have paid at least one renewal for a role that was already filled.
• Your hiring manager edits roles in the ATS and the board copy drifts out of date.
• Finance asks for one predictable line item for job advertising instead of a stack of receipts.

Is We Work Remotely free for employers?

No. We Work Remotely is free for job seekers and paid for employers, starting at $299 per 30-day listing. There is no free employer listing. RemoteBoard works the same way for candidates, who never pay, but employers pay one flat plan instead of a fee per listing, starting at $49 a month billed yearly.

How to keep a We Work Remotely budget under control

If you stay on a per-listing board, a few habits stop the bill from creeping:

1. Switch auto-renew off on day one and renew on purpose when a search actually needs more time.
2. Send the renewal reminder to a shared hiring alias, not to one recruiter's inbox.
3. Buy upgrades only for hard roles. A well-written listing with a clear salary range often outperforms a paid badge. Pay transparency laws in states like California, Colorado, New York and Washington already require a range in many postings, and posted salary ranges that hold up against market data also lift apply rates.
4. Close listings the day a role is filled so it never reaches a renewal date.

Our guide on how to write a remote job post covers the parts of a listing that decide who applies, which matters more than the visibility tier.

A flat plan for teams that hire every month

RemoteBoard was built for the companies the per-listing model penalizes. Paste the public URL of your Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby board and every fully remote role is listed within the hour. Edits flow through, closed roles leave on their own, and each role carries the countries you can employ in and the hours people must overlap, so candidates filter themselves before they apply.

See also Remotive vs We Work Remotely for employers. Plans start at $49 a month billed yearly for up to 3 active roles, with featured slots included on Growth and Scale and no charge at day 30 or day 60. You can preview your own roles on the board before you pay anything, at the top of this page or on post a remote job. If you are also pricing Remote OK, our Remote OK pricing breakdown runs the same yearly math for its dynamic, per-post prices, and the Remote OK alternative page compares it feature by feature. For the third big per-listing board, see the Remotive alternative for employers. Deciding between the two biggest boards? Read We Work Remotely vs Remote OK for employers.