# USAJOBS, free, API Key: Job postings API

> The Job Search API is designed to support lightweight JOA content consumption by consumers and delivers currently open job opportunity announcements. It is anticipated that this endpoint will be leveraged by Commercial Job Boards, Mobile Applications and Social Media sites who desire to provide employment opportunities on their site.

USAJOBS's job postings API on its API Key plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 jobs. It returns 8 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Category, Location, Salary, Terms, Level, Team, Company.
We haven't run USAJOBS through [our job postings API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 277 plans we rank by price cost $0.25 per 1,000 jobs or less. This plan and 17 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 jobs of the 277 plans.
[Hirebase's $50 monthly plan (/v2/jobs/expired-jobs/export)](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/hirebase/50-monthly-web-pro-post-v2-jobs-expired-jobs-export/llms.txt) covers any number of jobs. Hirebase's $50 monthly plan costs less up front than JobDataAPI's $345 monthly plan.
[freehire](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/freehire/29-monthly-api-get-jobs-search/llms.txt), [Himalayas](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/himalayas/free-api-key-get-jobs-api-search/llms.txt) and [Arbetsförmedlingen](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/arbetsformedlingen/free-open-data-get-search-jobsearch-search-using-parameters-and-or-freetext/llms.txt) are the best job postings API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/usajobs/free-api-key
- [Job postings API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt)
- Get it: https://developer.usajobs.gov/api-reference/get-api-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.usajobs.gov/api/Search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://developer.usajobs.gov/api-reference/get-api-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developer.usajobs.gov/api-reference/get-api-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Sold by: USAJOBS (https://developer.usajobs.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 62%
- Description: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Salary: ✓
- Terms: ✓
- Level: ✓
- Team: ✓
- Company: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 jobs: $0.00
- Per: page of 500
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 10,000
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Job Search API is designed to support lightweight JOA content consumption by consumers and delivers currently open job opportunity announcements. It is anticipated that this endpoint will be leveraged by Commercial Job Boards, Mobile Applications and Social Media sites who desire to provide employment opportunities on their site.

## Data

- History: open only
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Public Data may be copied, stored, reformatted, adapted, analyzed, published, redistributed, and used for lawful commercial or noncommercial purposes. Prior OPM approval is not required. [...] OPM encourages users to identify USAJOBS as the source, link to the current official job announcement, include the date on which the data was retrieved, and disclose that an unofficial product or service is not operated, sponsored, approved, or endorsed by OPM. [...] API Consumers and downstream users may modify, summarize, analyze, or combine Public Data but may not: Falsely present modified information as official or unaltered government information, Falsely represent that a product or service is operated, sponsored, approved, or endorsed by OPM or another federal agency, Use an official seal, logo, or insignia except as authorized by law, or otherwise use an agency name or identifier in a manner likely to falsely imply government affiliation, Falsely represent that an application has been transmitted to or received by USAJOBS or a hiring agency, or Engage in phishing, fraud, deceptive collection of applicant information, or other unlawful conduct.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Host header "data.usajobs.gov", User-Agent header. Optional: Keyword, PositionTitle, RemunerationMinimumAmount, RemunerationMaximumAmount, PayGradeHigh, PayGradeLow, JobCategoryCode, LocationName, Organization, PositionOfferingTypeCode, TravelPercentage, PositionScheduleTypeCode, RelocationIndicator, SecurityClearanceRequired, SupervisoryStatus, DatePosted, JobGradeCode, SortField, SortDirection, Page, ResultsPerPage, WhoMayApply, Radius, Fields, SalaryBucket, GradeBucket, HiringPath, MissionCriticalTags, RemoteIndicator
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/Search

## About the plan

- Plan: API Key
- Who can get it: an individual or organization that registers on the API Request form with current and accurate registration and contact information

## The 52 fields the plan's answer can hold

job ID, announcement number, title, job URL, apply URL, location, location name, country, country subdivision, city, latitude, longitude, organization name, department name, job categories, pay plan, work schedule, position offering type, qualification summary, salary min, salary max, salary period, position start date, position end date, publication start date, application close date, formatted description, major duties, education, requirements, evaluations, how to apply, what to expect next, required documents, benefits, benefits URL, other information, key requirements, job summary, who may apply, low grade, high grade, sub-agency name, organization codes, radial search, relevance rank, language code, search parameters, results returned, total results, number of pages, refiners

## USAJOBS's plans (2)

- [USAJOBS, free, API Key](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/usajobs/free-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete
- [USAJOBS, free, No API key](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/usajobs/free-no-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete

## USAJOBS's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /api/Search`: [USAJOBS, free, API Key](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/usajobs/free-api-key/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/historicjoa`: [USAJOBS, free, No API key](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/usajobs/free-no-api-key/llms.txt)

## USAJOBS's APIs (2)

- [USAJOBS: job postings API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/usajobs/free-api-key/llms.txt)
- [USAJOBS: job posting details API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/usajobs/free/llms.txt)

## USAJOBS: job postings API alternatives

- [freehire, free (no key), GET /jobs](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/freehire/free-no-key-get-jobs/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, stored
- [Himalayas, free, No API key, GET /jobs/api](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/himalayas/free-no-api-key-get-jobs-api/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, 24 hours
- [Arbetsförmedlingen, free, Open data, GET /search, Historical job ads: Search using parameters and/or freetext](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/arbetsformedlingen/free-open-data-get-search-historical-job-ads-search-using-parameters-and-or-freetext/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /indeed/v1/jobs/search](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/reefapi/free-free-post-indeed-v1-jobs-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [Remotive, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/remotive/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 24 hours

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://developer.usajobs.gov/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://developer.usajobs.gov/api-reference/get-api-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://developer.usajobs.gov/api-reference/job-apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://developer.usajobs.gov/apirequest/addrequestvalid?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://developer.usajobs.gov/general/quick-start?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://developer.usajobs.gov/guides/authentication?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://developer.usajobs.gov/guides/rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://developer.usajobs.gov/guides/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://developer.usajobs.gov/tutorials/search-jobs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing