Salvo data, October 2026
Job application data by job site, October 2026
Lever forms asked for a cover letter on 88% of applications, Workday forms on 9%. Half of all interview requests came within 2.4 days of applying. These findings come from every application Salvo AI sent and confirmed for 42 job seekers from October 1 to 30, 2026.
Key findings
1. Workday carried 41.7% of the applications Salvo sent in October 2026, Greenhouse 23.5% and Ashby 7.5%.
2. Lever application forms had a cover letter box 87.9% of the time, against 19.3% on Greenhouse and 8.6% on Workday.
3. Greenhouse postings showed a pay range 44.0% of the time, Lever postings 40.9% and Workday postings 16.8%.
4. A Workday application took software a median 4 minutes 30 seconds to fill in and send, more than twice the 2 minutes 3 seconds a Greenhouse form took.
5. The median Workday and Greenhouse form had 11 fields filled in, while the median UKG form had 41.
6. BambooHR postings were still taking applications at a median age of 28 days, against about 5 days for Workday and Greenhouse postings when Salvo applied.
7. Half of interview requests arrived within 2.4 days of the application, a quarter within 13 hours, and 9 in 10 within 11.4 days.
8. 62% of interview requests arrived Monday through Wednesday, and 9% arrived on a weekend.
9. 80% of interview requests arrived between 8 am and 6 pm Eastern time.
Applications by job site
An ATS (applicant tracking system) is the website an employer uses to collect applications. Shares are of all applications Salvo confirmed as sent in the window.
| Job site (ATS) | Share of applications | Cover letter box | Pay range shown |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workday | 41.7% | 8.6% | 16.8% |
| Greenhouse | 23.5% | 19.3% | 44.0% |
| Ashby | 7.5% | 10.9% | 29.2% |
| JazzHR | 4.6% | - | 13.7% |
| Workable | 3.5% | 21.2% | 16.2% |
| Lever | 3.5% | 87.9% | 40.9% |
| BambooHR | 3.3% | 50.2% | 13.0% |
| Breezy | 2.3% | 13.6% | 35.5% |
| Gem | 2.3% | - | 19.5% |
| Dayforce | 2.3% | - | 1.7% |
| SmartRecruiters | 0.4% | 72.8% | 19.8% |
| All others (10 sites) | 5.1% | - | - |
A dash means Salvo's form filler for that site does not record the cover letter box yet, so we leave it blank. A blank is not zero.
Form length and time to send
Fields filled in counts every answer Salvo typed or picked, from name and email to screening questions. Time to send is how long Salvo's software took from opening the form to a confirmed send. A person typing by hand takes longer.
| Job site (ATS) | Median fields filled in | Median time to send | Median posting age when applied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workday | 11 | 4 min 30 s | 5.1 days |
| Greenhouse | 11 | 2 min 3 s | 5.3 days |
| Ashby | 7 | 2 min 38 s | 6.1 days |
| JazzHR | 9 | 2 min 23 s | 2.6 days |
| Workable | 11 | 1 min 39 s | 13.3 days |
| Lever | 12 | 1 min 55 s | 10.0 days |
| BambooHR | 15 | 3 min 20 s | 28.2 days |
| Dayforce | 19 | 4 min 56 s | 1.3 days |
| Zoho Recruit | 17 | 1 min 8 s | 1.9 days |
| UKG | 41 | 1 min 27 s | 0.6 days |
Posting age is the time from the date the job site lists for the posting to the moment Salvo applied. Every posting in this table was still open at that moment. Salvo applies to newer postings first, so these ages run younger than the average posting on each site.
How fast employers ask for an interview
Salvo users have gotten a live count of interview requests in total (how we count). For timing, we used the 80 requests we could tie to exactly one confirmed application, counting each employer once per person.
| Share of interview requests | Arrived within |
|---|---|
| 25% | 13 hours |
| 50% | 2.4 days |
| 75% | 7.3 days |
| 90% | 11.4 days |
If two weeks pass with no reply, the odds of an interview from that application are low, and it makes sense to keep applying elsewhere.
Sample and method
- Window: applications confirmed as sent from October 1 to October 30, 2026, Eastern time. Timing of interview requests uses all applications since September 25, 2026, the first day Salvo kept this record.
- People: 42 real job seekers using Salvo. Test and staff test accounts are left out.
- Confirmed means the job site answered the send, or the employer sent a receipt. Failed and skipped attempts are left out.
- Cover letter box and pay range come from the form and posting at the moment Salvo applied. Pay range counts a range shown in the posting or in the job site's own posting data.
- An interview request is an employer email or calendar invite asking for a call, screen or interview for a job Salvo applied to. Auto-replies, receipts and one-way video screens do not count.
- The sample leans toward office jobs in the United States and toward the job sites Salvo applies on, so it is not a picture of every job seeker.
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