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How much time are you wasting
filling out job applications?

Copying your work history into the same fields. Tweaking the same answers. Clicking through the same 5-page forms. The average job seeker spends 11 hours a week on this grind. Use this calculator to see what it's actually costing you.

Your numbers

20 apps
1100
30 min
5120
12 weeks
152

Your time cost

120

Hours spent

15

Workdays lost

$3,600

Salary value lost

Based on $30/hr average salary equivalent

My job search cost

120 hours

15 workdays · $3,600 in lost value

20 apps/week × 30 min × 12 weeks · Calculated at applyghost.com/tools/time-calculator

The real cost

Here's what 120 hours of job applications actually looks like:

That's 232 months of Netflix you could have paid for instead

15 vacation days spent filling out forms

720 coffees worth of wasted time

You could have read 20 books cover to cover

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