Jobs posted

Upwork's hire-rate article explains the relationship: the rate is worked out from how often a client hires "after posting a job", so a 50% hire rate means a hire on half of the jobs posted. Jobs posted is that denominator, and Upwork shows it in the About the client section with the hire rate and the client's open jobs.

Reading it. The count only means something next to the hires. A first post with no hire yet is a new client, and most clients start that way. Several posts and no hire is a different pattern: Upwork's own client rules name ghost job posts, meaning posts without a genuine intent to hire, and duplicate posts left active at the same time, as things it acts on. A long record of posts with a healthy hire rate is the strongest form of the signal.

What it does not tell you. The count does not say how many of those jobs were filled through a proposal, an invitation or a direct offer, how large they were, or whether the client still uses Upwork. Read it with client spend and the dates in the client's recent history.

How Upsight uses it. A campaign's hire-rate floor has its own escape built on this count: a client who has posted at most a set number of jobs clears the floor, so a first-time poster with no hire yet is not blocked, while a client who has posted again and again without hiring is. The escape for spend and rate bounds uses past contracts instead, because a client with many posts and no hire has no contracts either. The suitability scorer sees the jobs-posted count with the hire rate.