Why we price it this way
A job search is not a monthly thing
So we stopped selling it like one. This page explains the reasoning, with the numbers it rests on, because a pricing promise you cannot check is just a slogan.
If you are reading this, you are probably in the middle of a search. You already know the part that does not show up in statistics: the mornings that start with a rejection, the applications that vanish without a reply, the slow arithmetic of how long the money lasts. We are not going to explain your own situation back to you.
What we can do is be straight about how long this usually takes, and price the product to fit that instead of to fit our revenue chart.
The typical search is about three months
Half of job searches finish inside 11 to 12 weekssrc. That is the number that describes a normal search, and it is the number the plan is built around.
You will also see "six months" quoted a lot, and that is true as well. It is the average, and it is bigger for a specific reason: a minority of searches run very long and pull the average up behind them. Both numbers are real. Only one of them describes a typical search, and we would rather explain the difference than quote whichever one suits the pitch.
11 to 12 weeks
The typical job search runs about three months
This is the MEDIAN: half of searches finish sooner, half take longer. It is the number that describes a typical search.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, median unemployment duration · early 2026
25 to 26 weeks
The average search is closer to six months, because a long tail pulls it up
The mean runs 2 to 2.5 times the median because the distribution is right-skewed: most searches are short, and a long tail of very long ones drags the average up. Both numbers are true. Only one of them describes a typical search.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, mean unemployment duration · early 2026
And it costs more than money
A search is not only long, it is expensive while you have the least to spend. In a 2026 survey of job seekers, more than half had spent down their savings, and more than half had cut back on food, medicine or utilities to keep going.
55.1%
More than half cut spending on food, medicine and utilities while looking
This is the figure the pricing argument rests on. It is not a rhetorical flourish.
United Way NCA job seeker survey · 2026
55.6%
More than half of job seekers spend down their savings while looking
United Way NCA job seeker survey · 2026
Sit those two facts next to each other and the problem with a monthly subscription becomes obvious. A subscription charges you every month you have not found work yet. It takes the most, in total, from the people whose search runs longest, which is exactly the group with the least left. And it bills in month five and month six, when the savings in that first chart are gone.
That is not anyone being greedy. It is a billing shape borrowed from software you use forever, applied to something you urgently want to stop needing. Nobody designed it to land that way. It lands that way anyway.
So the plan ends on its own
$34.99, once, for 90 days. On day 91 it stops. There is no subscription to find, no cancellation to remember, and no card quietly billing you next month. If you found a job in week three, we are not still charging you in month four.
We are not claiming this is generous. It is the same money either way for a short search. What it does is take one small worry off a pile that is already too high, and put the decision to keep paying in your hands instead of on a timer.
What happens if your search runs long
About a quarter of people looking for work have been looking more than six months. If that turns out to be you, day 91 arrives and nothing gets confiscated: every resume, cover letter and PDF you made stays yours, and you can still open and export all of it.
Starting another campaign is then a decision you make deliberately, on a day you choose, rather than a charge that happens because you forgot. That is the whole difference, and it is the only thing we are actually selling here.
~25% past 27 weeks
A quarter of people looking for work have been looking for more than six months
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, via Pew Research · early 2026
30%
Nearly a third borrow on credit cards to get through it
United Way NCA job seeker survey · 2026
And a real part of it costs nothing
Writing and editing your resume is free and uncounted, forever, with no card. So is your Readiness Score and the exact line that would raise it, your profile page, and the interview question bank. Your first three PDF exports are free too, and nothing we export is ever watermarked.
The rest, Orion coaching, tailoring to a posting, cover letters and graded practice interviews, is open for your first 7 days and then part of a plan. A plan does not unlock hidden features. There are none. It stops the counting.
62.6 applications, 46+ hours
A search takes dozens of applications and more than a working week of typing
United Way NCA job seeker survey · 2026
One more number, because it is the one that changed how we built the product: a search takes dozens of applications and more than a working week of typing. Almost none of that effort is writing. It is retyping. That is the other half of the argument.