Why employers look for a Working Nomads alternative
Working Nomads is one of the cheaper paid remote boards. A single post is $199 for 30 days, and a bundle of ten brings it to $169 a post. Compared with the $299 that Remote OK, We Work Remotely and Remotive start at, that is a real discount, and the post includes a homepage slot, an email to its job-alert list and Google Jobs posting.
The reason teams still look elsewhere is not the sticker price. It is the way the cost behaves once you hire all year. Every role needs its own post. A role that is still open after 30 days needs a renewal, and the price of that renewal is not published. Someone has to paste each job from your ATS into a form, and someone has to remember to take it down when the role fills.
If you hire two or three times a year, none of that matters much. If you open a remote role every month, it is a recurring chore and a bill that grows with every role.
What a year of remote hiring costs on each model
Take a team that opens 12 remote roles in a year and fills each within 30 days, with no more than 10 open at once.
| Model | Calculation | Yearly cost |
|---|---|---|
| Working Nomads, single posts | 12 x $199 | $2,388 |
| Working Nomads, one 10-job bundle plus 2 singles | $1,690 + 2 x $199 | $2,088 |
| RemoteBoard Growth, billed yearly | $149 x 12 months | $1,788 |
| RemoteBoard Starter, billed yearly | $49 x 12 months | $588 |
Starter covers up to 3 active roles at a time, so it fits a team that rarely has more than three open. Growth covers up to 10 active roles and adds 3 featured slots a month. The gap against Working Nomads is smaller than against the $299 boards, roughly $300 to $600 a year on 12 roles, and it widens when roles run past 30 days. Add one 60-day search and the per-post model needs another $199 or more, while a flat plan costs nothing extra. For the same math against the pricier boards, see Remote OK pricing and We Work Remotely pricing.
Where Working Nomads is the better choice
Be honest about the cases where it wins.
- Occasional hiring. With two or three hires a year, $199 a post, or $169 in a bundle, can undercut $588 for a year of Starter.
- Credits that do not expire quickly. Bundle credits stay valid for 2 years, so you can buy ten and use them as roles come up. A monthly plan cannot be paused that way.
- No ATS to sync. If your jobs live in a spreadsheet or a small tool, pasting a job once is not much work.
- Newsletter and LinkedIn reach. The page lists 65,000+ job-alert subscribers and 450,000+ LinkedIn followers, which suits a single high-priority role.
When a flat plan wins
A flat plan wins when remote hiring is steady. With a Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby board, the sync reads your public jobs page, keeps only fully remote roles and lists them with their salary ranges. Edits follow, and closed roles come down at the next sync. Nobody copies text, and nobody tracks 30-day expiry dates across ten roles.
You also get location detail that remote candidates filter on: eligible countries and required UTC overlap on every listing. Growth adds 3 featured slots a month for urgent roles. Views and apply clicks per job show which roles are pulling candidates. The integration pages for Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby list exactly which fields sync.
Using both is fine
Nothing stops you from keeping Working Nomads credits for a one-off role that is not in your ATS and running the rest on a flat plan. Plan capacity is counted by active roles, so check how many remote roles you usually have open before picking Starter, Growth or Scale. Monthly billing is $99, $299 and $699 if you prefer not to commit for a year; full details are on the pricing page. Other per-post boards are compared on the Dynamite Jobs alternative and Remotive alternative pages.
How the switch works
- Open your ATS jobs page and copy its address.
- Paste it into the preview on post a remote job and see your remote roles as listings before you pay.
- Create an employer account with your work email and pick a plan.
- Your roles go live within the hour. Use up to 3 or 10 featured slots a month on Growth or Scale for the roles that are hardest to fill.