Job Ad Copywriting: Copy-Paste Templates for Warehouse, CDL, Trades, Service and Sales Ads, a Job Posting Template, and the Rules Every Line Has to Pass

Last updated August 27, 2026 · Ad creative · The principles are on what makes a good job ad; caregiver, CNA and nurse templates are on the healthcare templates page

Job ad copywriting for frontline roles comes down to one line and one form: the first line carries the role in the words workers search, the pay as a number or a real range, the shift and the town; the form asks three questions and takes a minute. Everything else is optional. The reason is measured, not stylistic — across the 891 campaigns in Boostpoint's 2026 Social Job Advertising Benchmark, what happens after the click explained 70% of the difference in cost per applicant, and campaigns converting under 5% of clicks paid a median $53.77 per applicant against $1.61 over 35%. The templates below are written to that shape and to two sets of rules, Meta's Special Ad Category and the state pay-range laws, so they can be pasted, filled and run, with a job posting template further down for the board and the career site.

Source: Boostpoint 2026 Social Job Advertising Benchmark — 891 Boostpoint-managed campaigns on Meta (1,334 campaign-months), 2026; costs are what advertisers paid, inclusive of campaign management, and cover advertising only.

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A note on who's writing this

Boostpoint writes and runs job ads on social platforms for employers, so a page of job ad templates is a page of our own practice, and we say which parts are data and which are habit. The data is the published 2026 benchmark: 891 campaigns, 1,334 campaign-months, management fee inside every figure, and the finding that conversion after the click explains most of the cost. The habits — pay in the first line, three knockout questions, a real photo of the workplace, a call the same day — are what we do, and we have not measured them as isolated lifts. Where a third party has a number, we quote it as theirs: Indeed says jobs with salaries listed receive up to 2.5 times more applications and that 36% of job seekers search by exact title. No template on this page asserts a wage; every pay figure is a bracket you fill, and where a pay-range law applies it has to be the range you'll actually pay. Nothing here is legal advice.

The case for the standard job posting, made first

The long posting that most employers already have — title, summary, responsibilities, qualifications, benefits, EEO statement — earns its place. It is what a job board's feed expects and what Google's job-listing structured data is built around; it holds the sections a pay-transparency statute or an OFCCP listing obligation wants to see in writing; it protects the employer, because a requirement that was in the posting is a requirement that was disclosed; and it tells a careful applicant what the job is before they spend an hour applying. For a salaried role with a résumé and a reference check, it is the right document, and the posting template further down this page is a version of it. What it is not is an ad. It was written to be complete, and a feed rewards something else: the one line a person reads in the second before they scroll. So the honest position is both. Keep the posting for the board and the career site; write the ad for the feed; make them agree on the pay, the shift and the place, because the applicant will see both.

The same principle governs the interview that follows the ad: ask about the requirement, not the person. We keep the federal rules on illegal interview questions quoted in full on their own page, including the two that run against the usual advice.

Two sets of rules every template obeys

Meta's Special Ad Category. Employment ads on Facebook and Instagram must be declared in the Special Ad Category, which removes age, gender and ZIP-code targeting and enforces a minimum location radius of 15 miles; our page on the category walks through every lock. The consequence for the copy is the central idea of this page: the words do the targeting. "CDL-A" in the first line reaches CDL-A holders; "$[low]–$[high]/hr" reaches people comparing rates; "2nd shift" reaches second-shift people. The copy can select on the job's requirements and never on the person's demographics, which is also the law off Meta: the EEOC's summary is that "it is illegal for an employer to publish a job advertisement that shows a preference for or discourages someone from applying for a job because of his or her race, color, religion, sex (including transgender status, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information," and its example is that an ad seeking "females" or "recent college graduates" may discourage men and people over 40 from applying. Pay in the posting. A growing list of jurisdictions requires the pay range in the posting itself: as of this writing fourteen are in effect — Colorado, California, Washington, New York, Hawaii, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Massachusetts, Virginia and Maine — with Connecticut's posting requirement taking effect October 1, 2026 and Delaware's in 2027, each with its own employee-count threshold. The job posting requirements page has the table with sources and dates. Every template below puts a range in the first line, so the ad is compliant where the law applies and merely better where it doesn't.

How to write a job posting that attracts: the first line, then four more

Write the first line last. Draft the ad, then delete everything before the pay, the shift and the town, because that is where the reader starts and, for most, where they stop. The formula is [Role, in the worker's words] · $[low]–$[high]/[unit] · [shift or schedule] · [town], and the reason it comes first is that the person deciding whether to leave a job they already have screens on those three facts before reading a word about culture. Pay is a number or a real range: "competitive" reads as below market, "DOE" reads as a negotiation you'll lose, and "up to $[X]" is a ceiling, not a range, in the states that require one. Then four lines. The work, in a sentence a worker would use: "picking and packing, no forklift," "regional dry van, no-touch freight," "residential service calls, truck and phone provided." The one hard requirement, stated plainly, because it becomes the first knockout question in the form and filters before you pay for an application. The two facts about the week — pay frequency and days off — which are worth more than a benefits paragraph to someone with a job. The ask and how long it takes: "three questions, 60 seconds, no résumé," a promise the form must then keep, since a form that takes ten minutes after an ad that promised one is the single fastest way into the under-5% band. Meta's Ads Guide recommends 50 to 150 characters of primary text and a 27-character headline for the feed; the templates fit, and the builder counts as you type.

The five lines of a feed job ad: the first line with the role in the worker's words, the pay range, the shift and the town; the work in a sentence; the one hard requirement; pay frequency and days off; the ask and how long it takes, with the note that what happens after the click explained 70 percent of cost variation across 891 campaigns and the apply-rate bands from 53.77 dollars under 5 percent to 1.61 over 35 percent — Five lines. The first one does the selecting and the last one makes the promise the form has to keep.

Two more habits, both ours and neither measured as a lift. The photo is the actual workplace — the dock at shift change, the truck, the panel, the counter — with an employee in it, not stock; people who do the work can tell in a second. And the ad names the day the manager will call, and then the manager calls, because the applicant applied to two other employers in the same sitting. The measured part is the form: the apply-rate bands are the whole argument, and they are on the conversion page in full.

The words do the targeting: a title translator

Indeed's figure is that 36% of job seekers search by exact job title, and on a social platform where demographic targeting is locked, the title in the first line is the targeting. A "Material Handler II" ad reaches people who know they are a Material Handler II, which is nobody who doesn't already work for you; a "Warehouse associate" ad reaches the people you meant. The rule is to name the job the way the person doing it names it to a friend: strip the level, the grade and the words "associate," "specialist," "professional" and "ambassador" unless they're the job, and put the tool or the license in the title when the tool or the license is the job — "forklift operator," "CDL-A driver," "diesel mechanic." Type a title below and see what we'd run instead.

Interactive

Title translator — type the title from your posting; get the name workers search, the first line we'd write with it, and the reason

Nothing is stored or sent — this runs in your browser. Thirty-two common posting titles are in the list; anything else gets the rule instead of a match. The translations are Boostpoint's practice, not a measured lift.

Title as it appears in your posting

Run it as

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The first line, with brackets

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The list is ours and it is short: the test for any title not on it is whether a worker would type it into a search box, or say it to a friend. Indeed's "36% of job seekers search by exact job title" is Indeed's figure (page updated May 11, 2026). Where an internal title is required for the posting, keep it in the posting and use the worker's name in the ad and the first line. No age, gender or ZIP words in any title.

The rewrite table: what fails, what to write instead, and which rule reaches it

Most of the copy that costs money is not illegal; it's vague. Some of it is both. The table sorts the common lines by which rule reaches them — an anti-discrimination rule, a platform rule, a posting law, or only the data — because the fix is the same but the urgency isn't.

Job ad rewrites — the line as commonly written, the line we'd run, and which rule reaches it (Boostpoint practice; rules as summarized on the linked pages; not legal advice)
As written	Write instead	Why	Which rule
"Competitive pay"	"$[low]–$[high]/hr"	Reads as below market; the applicant screens on the number first	State pay-range laws where they apply; otherwise the data (apply-rate bands)
"Up to $[X]/hr" or "DOE"	"$[low]–$[high]/hr by experience"	A ceiling isn't a range; several statutes require a good-faith range or scale	State pay-range laws (the table)
"Recent college graduates welcome"	"No experience needed; paid training"	The EEOC's own example of an ad that may discourage people over 40	EEOC — age (40 or older)
"Young, energetic team"	"Crew of [X] on [shift]"	Age preference in the adjective; the fact you meant is the crew size	EEOC — age; Meta's employment-ad policy
"Looking for a strong guy"	"Lift [X] lbs through a shift"	A sex preference standing in for a physical requirement; state the requirement	EEOC — sex
"Must live in ZIP [XXXXX]"	"[Town], [X] minutes from [landmark]"	ZIP targeting is locked in the category; the town does the work	Meta Special Ad Category (15-mile minimum radius)
"Native English speaker"	"Fluent English for [phones / safety briefings]"	"Native" points at national origin; the job needs fluency, not birthplace	EEOC — national origin
"Fast-paced, like a family"	"[X] orders an hour, [X] people on shift"	Describes nothing; the number and the crew do	Only the data
"Apply on our careers site"	"Three questions here, 60 seconds"	The send-off to a portal is where conversion dies	Only the data: under 5% converting paid a median $53.77; over 35%, $1.61
"Warehouse Associate III"	"Warehouse associate" (grade in the posting)	Nobody searches the grade; the title is the targeting	Indeed's 36%-by-exact-title figure; Meta's targeting locks

Ten job ad rewrites in three columns: the line as written such as competitive pay, recent college graduates welcome, young energetic team, must live in ZIP, native English speaker and apply on our careers site; the line to write instead; and which rule reaches it — the EEOC on age, sex and national origin, Meta's Special Ad Category on ZIP codes and the 15-mile minimum radius, state pay-range laws, or only the data — Which rule reaches the line. Vague costs money; a preference for a person costs more than money.

The templates: seven role families, one ad each

Each card is one feed ad — primary text within Meta's recommended 150 characters, a headline within 27 — plus the three knockout questions for the form and the photo we'd shoot. The benchmark line on each card is the role family's median cost per applicant with the management fee inside, its apply rate, and the number of campaigns behind it, from the 2026 benchmark; it tells you what the family cost to reach, not what your ad will cost, and it is not a cost per hire. Brackets are yours; nothing in a bracket is a number we assert. The differentiator — the one thing you offer that the employer down the road doesn't — is the line to change most, and if you can't name one, that's the finding. Caregiver, CNA, LPN and RN ads are on the healthcare templates page; the channel for each role is on the best way to recruit.

Warehouse associate

Benchmark $9.83 · 20% apply · 82 campaigns

Primary text (≤150 characters)

Warehouse associate · $[low]–$[high]/hr · [2nd] shift, [Mon–Fri] · [Town]. Picking and packing, no forklift needed. Weekly pay. 60-second application, no résumé.

Role in the worker's words, range, shift, days, town, the work in five words, pay frequency, the promise. No forklift needed is a requirement stated in the negative — it widens the pool on purpose.

Headline (≤27 characters)

Warehouse · $[low]–$[high]/hr

The three form questions

1. Which shift can you work: [1st / 2nd / 3rd]?
2. Can you lift [X] lbs through a shift?
3. Best number and time to reach you?

The photo

The dock at shift change, one employee in a vest, the racks behind — yours, not stock.

CDL-A driver

Benchmark $26.86 · 8% apply · 59 campaigns

Primary text (≤150 characters)

CDL-A driver · $[low]–$[high]/mile, all miles · Home [weekly] · Out of [Town]. [Regional dry van], no-touch freight, [year]+ trucks. Apply in 90 seconds.

Drivers screen on pay unit and home time before anything else; "all miles" answers the question they'd otherwise ask. The credential in the first two characters is the targeting.

Headline (≤27 characters)

CDL-A · $[low]–$[high]/mile

The three form questions

1. Do you hold a current CDL-A?
2. Months of verifiable experience: [0–6 / 6–12 / 12+]?
3. Home time you need: [daily / weekly / two weeks]?

The photo

Your truck, your yard, one of your drivers. The tractor's year is in the ad; the photo should agree.

Maintenance or field technician

Benchmark $13.41 · 16% apply · 145 campaigns

Primary text (≤150 characters)

Maintenance tech · $[low]–$[high]/hr · Days, Mon–Fri · [Town]. [Plant / fleet], [equipment brands], our own tooling. [Cert] a plus, not required. 2 questions.

Technicians read the equipment list the way nurses read the unit; name the brands. "A plus, not required" keeps the credentialed and the almost-credentialed both in the pool, and the form sorts them.

Headline (≤27 characters)

Maintenance tech · $[low]+/hr

The three form questions

1. Years on [equipment type]: [0–2 / 2–5 / 5+]?
2. Do you hold [cert]? (Not required)
3. Best number and time to reach you?

The photo

The line or the bay with the equipment named in the ad in frame, and the tech who works on it.

Skilled trades — electrician, plumber, HVAC (one family)

Benchmark $14.14 · 15% apply · 35 campaigns

Primary text (≤150 characters)

[Electrician] · $[low]–$[high]/hr · Mon–Fri, no weekends · [Town]. [Residential service], truck and phone provided, [license] required. Weekly pay. 60-second apply.

Swap the trade and the license and the card holds. We publish one cost figure for the whole trades family because 69% of trades applications in our data weren't labeled by trade, so no per-trade cost is claimed here.

Headline (≤27 characters)

[Electrician] · $[low]–$[high]/hr

The three form questions

1. Do you hold a [state] [license / card]?
2. Years in [residential / commercial]: [0–2 / 2–5 / 5+]?
3. Best number and time to reach you?

The photo

The truck with your name on it and the tradesperson who drives it, in a driveway, not a studio.

Customer service representative

Benchmark $2.71 · 25% apply · 24 campaigns

Primary text (≤150 characters)

Customer service rep · $[low]–$[high]/hr · [Days / evenings], on-site · [Town]. Phones and chat for [what]. Paid training, [X] weeks. No experience needed. 60 sec.

The cheapest family to reach in the benchmark and the one most often sunk by a long form. Say on-site or remote in the first line; it's the second thing this pool screens on.

Headline (≤27 characters)

Customer service · $[low]/hr+

The three form questions

1. Can you work [days / evenings / weekends]?
2. Have you worked phones or chat before? (Not required)
3. Best number and time to reach you?

The photo

The floor with headsets on, daylight if you have it, and the trainer who runs the [X]-week class.

Sales rep or appointment setter

Benchmark $11.61 · 21% apply · 100 campaigns

Primary text (≤150 characters)

Appointment setter · $[base low]–$[base high]/hr + $[X] per set appointment · [Days] · [Town]. Setting for [what]. Paid training. Apply in 60 seconds.

Print the base as a range and the commission as a rule, not a story: "top setters earn" is a claim about someone else. Where a pay-range law applies, the base range is what it reaches; state the commission plan alongside it.

Headline (≤27 characters)

Setter · $[base]/hr + $[X]/appt

The three form questions

1. Have you sold or set appointments by phone before? (Not required)
2. Can you work [days / evenings]?
3. Best number and time to reach you?

The photo

The team on the floor mid-shift, or the product being sold in the customer's home — not a handshake.

Shift lead or supervisor

Benchmark $16.87 · 16% apply · 50 campaigns

Primary text (≤150 characters)

Shift lead · $[low]–$[high]/hr · [2nd] shift · [Town]. Run a crew of [X] on [what]. [X]+ months lead or supervisor experience. Weekly pay, [X] PTO days. 90 sec.

The management family costs more to reach than the crews it leads because the pool is smaller; the crew size and the shift are the two facts a lead screens on, and the experience line becomes the first knockout.

Headline (≤27 characters)

Shift lead · $[low]–$[high]/hr

The three form questions

1. Months leading a crew or shift: [0 / 1–12 / 12+]?
2. Which shift can you run: [1st / 2nd / 3rd]?
3. Best number and time to reach you?

The photo

A current lead with the crew, on the floor, at the start of the shift named in the ad.

The job posting template: for the board and the career site

The ad above sends people somewhere, and where it sends them should agree with it. This is the long-form posting for a job board, an ATS career page or a feed to an aggregator, in the order a worker reads and a statute checks. It carries the sections Google's job-listing structured data requires — a posting date, a description, the hiring organization, the location, the title — and the ones it recommends, including base salary and a validity date, and it comes down when the job fills, because Indeed's instruction is to remove a filled job from the feed and Google's is that expired listings can draw a manual action; the distribution page has both in their own words. Fill the brackets; keep the pay range identical to the ad's; delete the sections you don't need rather than padding them.

Job posting template — board, career site or feed · fill the brackets, delete what you don't need

Title (the searched name; the internal grade goes in the body)

[Warehouse associate] — [Town], [State]

Indeed: 36% of job seekers search by exact job title. "Warehouse associate" is searched; "Material Handler II" isn't.

Pay

$[low]–$[high] per [hour / mile / year], paid [weekly / biweekly] · [shift differential, if any] · [commission or bonus rule, if any]

A range with both ends, in the posting, where a pay-range law applies; the same range as the ad everywhere else.

Schedule

[Shift], [days] · [hours per week] · [overtime practice] · [days off]

Location

[Street address or site], [Town], [State] · [on-site / hybrid / remote] · [X] minutes from [landmark]

The town, the site and a landmark — never a ZIP code the applicant must live in.

The work

[Five plain sentences: what a shift looks like, what you'd handle, who you'd work with, what the equipment is, what a good week is.]

Requirements

Required: [the one hard requirement — license, certification, physical requirement stated as the task, minimum age where a law sets one].
Preferred, not required: [two at most].

The required line is the first knockout question. Every "preferred" is a person who scrolls past; keep two.

What we offer

[Benefits in one line] · [paid training, length] · [equipment provided] · [the one thing the employer down the road doesn't offer]

How to apply, and what happens next

[Three questions, X seconds, no résumé] · We call [the same day / within one business day] · Start date: [date]

The promise the form has to keep. In our benchmark, what happens after the click explained 70% of cost variation.

Equal opportunity statement and posting dates

[Your EEO statement, as counsel wrote it.] Posted [date] · Open until [date] — remove when filled.

Google's JobPosting data needs a posting date and recommends a validity date; Indeed says remove a filled job from the feed.

The job posting template laid out as nine sections in order: the searched title, the pay range with both ends and how often it is paid, the schedule, the location by town and landmark and never a ZIP, the work in five plain sentences, the one required and two preferred requirements, what we offer, how to apply and what happens next, and the equal opportunity statement with posting and removal dates; beside it a feed ad showing the same pay, shift and town, with the note that the ad and the posting must agree — One job, two documents, one pay range. The ad selects; the posting discloses; they agree.

One job, three formats: the builder

Every job needs the same facts in three shapes: a feed ad for the platform, a posting for the board and the career site, and a short message for the text a manager sends to a referral or last season's crew. Enter the facts once. The builder writes all three, counts characters against Meta's recommendations, and scans your entries for the words in the rewrite table — a ceiling instead of a range, an age or sex word, a ZIP code, "competitive," "DOE" — before you paste anything anywhere.

If you would rather start from a finished ad than from a blank builder, we keep a library of help wanted ad examples — fifteen of them across trades, drivers, healthcare, restaurants and warehouse work, each with the reason every line is there and a before-and-after rewrite.

Interactive

One job, three formats — enter the role, pay, shift, town, the work, the requirement and the ask; get the feed ad, the posting block and the referral text, with character counts and a rules scan

Nothing is stored or sent — this runs in your browser. The defaults are illustrative placeholders, not a wage claim; replace every one. The scan reads words, not results.

Role, in the worker's words

Pay, low end

Pay, high end

Pay unit

Commission rule (if any)

Shift or schedule

Town

The work, in a sentence

The one hard requirement

Pay frequency and days off

The ask

When you'll call

Manager's first name (for the text)

Feed ad · primary text 0 / 150

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Headline:

Posting block · board or career site

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Referral text · from the manager 0

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Character targets are Meta's Ads Guide recommendations for the feed (50–150 primary text, 27 headline); longer runs, but collapses. The scan looks for a missing range, "competitive," "DOE," "up to," age words (young, energetic, recent grad, digital native, mature), sex words (guy, girl, female, male, waitress), "native" before a language, and a five-digit ZIP; it can't read intent and it isn't legal review. Pay in the first line, three questions and same-day contact are Boostpoint's practice. Nothing here asserts a wage. Cost per applicant is not cost per hire.

When a template is the wrong tool

Three cases. A salaried professional role — an accountant, an engineer, a nurse manager — is read by people who want the long posting and will judge you on it; run the posting, and use the ad only to send them there. A role you can't state a range for, because pay is set in an interview you haven't had, isn't ready to advertise in fourteen jurisdictions and will underperform in the rest; settle the range first. And a role whose real differentiator is the manager — a small shop where the crew stays because of who runs it — needs the manager in the photo and one sentence in their voice more than it needs any line on this page. The template gives you the shape; the specifics are the only part that was ever going to work.

Frequently asked questions

How do you write a job ad that attracts applicants?

Put the role in the words workers search, the pay as a number or a real range, the shift and the town in the first line; add the work in a sentence, the one hard requirement, pay frequency and days off, and the ask with how long it takes; then keep the form to three questions. In our 891-campaign benchmark, what happens after the click explained 70% of cost variation — campaigns converting under 5% of clicks paid a median $53.77 per applicant, over 35% paid $1.61 — so the form is part of the ad.

Should a job ad include the pay?

Yes, in the first line, as a range with both ends. Fourteen jurisdictions now require a pay range in the posting itself, with Connecticut following on October 1, 2026 and Delaware in 2027, and Indeed reports that jobs with salaries listed receive up to 2.5 times more applications — Indeed's figure. Putting pay first is our practice, not a lift we've measured; "competitive pay" reads as below market to the person screening on the number.

What is a job posting template?

A fixed order of sections for a board or career-site listing: the searched title, the pay range and pay frequency, the schedule, the location by town, the work in plain sentences, one required and at most two preferred qualifications, what you offer, how to apply and when you'll call, and the EEO statement with posting and removal dates. The one on this page maps to Google's JobPosting properties and to Indeed's feed rules, and it is meant to agree with the feed ad on pay, shift and place.

How long should a job ad be?

For a social feed, one line that carries the pay, shift and town, then four short lines: Meta's Ads Guide recommends 50 to 150 characters of primary text and a 27-character headline, and the templates here fit. The posting for a board can be as long as the sections need, but the requirements list should stop at one required and two preferred; every extra line is someone who scrolls past.

What words can't you use in a job ad?

Anything that shows a preference for or discourages an applicant by race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information — the EEOC's summary, whose own example is an ad seeking "females" or "recent college graduates." On Meta, employment ads also run in the Special Ad Category with no age, gender or ZIP targeting and a 15-mile minimum radius, so the ad can't name a ZIP an applicant must live in. State the requirement, never the person.

Do these templates work on Indeed and other job boards?

The posting template does; it's written for boards, career sites and feeds and carries the fields Google's job-listing data and Indeed's feed expect. The feed ad templates are written for a social feed, where the person isn't searching and the first line has to do the selecting. Use both, keep the pay range identical, and take the posting down when the job fills. If you'd rather not run the social side yourself, see how social media job advertising works end to end, from the ad build through applicant delivery.

Why don't the templates cover every trade separately?

Because we publish one cost figure for the whole skilled-trades family — a median $14.14 per applicant, 15% apply rate, 35 campaigns — since 69% of trades applications in our data weren't labeled by trade, and a per-trade cost would be a guess. The trades card works for any licensed trade by swapping the trade and the license; the copy rule doesn't change.

How is this page different from the good-job-ad page?

That page is the anatomy and the principles, with a grader that scores an ad on seven parts. This page is the copy: seven role-family templates you can paste, a long-form posting template, the rewrite table sorted by which rule reaches each line, a title translator, and a builder that writes the feed ad, the posting block and the referral text from one set of facts. Healthcare templates have their own page.

Have us write and run them

Bring the job, the range and the shift. We'll write the first line the way the templates do, build the three-question form behind it, shoot the ad with your crew instead of stock, and run it in the Special Ad Category where the words do the targeting — with the management fee inside every figure we report and no cost per hire we didn't measure.

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Boostpoint figures come from the 2026 Social Job Advertising Benchmark — 891 campaigns and 1,334 campaign-months, costs inclusive of campaign management: conversion after the click explaining 70% of cost variation, click-through 30%, CPM 18%; apply-rate bands under 5% $53.77, 5–10% $23.13, 10–20% $11.11, 20–35% $4.41, over 35% $1.61; median $13.88 per applicant, $8.02 volume-weighted; role-family medians warehouse $9.83 (20% apply, 82 campaigns), CDL $26.86 (8%, 59), technician $13.41 (16%, 145), skilled trades $14.14 (15%, 35; one family, 69% of trades applications unlabeled by trade), customer service $2.71 (25%, 24), sales $11.61 (21%, 100), management $16.87 (16%, 50). Third-party, verified August 27, 2026: EEOC, "Prohibited Employment Policies/Practices" (job advertisements paragraph, quoted); Indeed, "How to Optimize Jobs from Your Career Site or ATS Directly on Indeed," updated May 11, 2026 ("36% of job seekers search by exact job title"; "Jobs with salaries listed receive up to 2.5X more applications" — Indeed's figures); Meta's Ads Guide character recommendations; Meta Special Ad Category limits and the state pay-range table as summarized on our own pages, with their sources. Boostpoint is priced as a product subscription plus ad spend: the subscription is priced on job volume and quoted on a call, ad spend is separate and recommended at a minimum of $750 a month per job category, there is one bill, through Boostpoint, and every cost-per-applicant figure we publish includes campaign management. Templates, the title list and the builder are Boostpoint's practice with placeholders; no wage is asserted; pay in the first line, three questions, the real photo and same-day contact are practice, not measured lifts. Nothing on this page is legal advice. Cost per applicant is not cost per hire; we do not track hires and publish no cost-per-hire figure. A sample of Boostpoint campaigns, not an industry-wide study.