Greenhouse vs. Ashby vs. Lever What 500+ Companies Tell Us About Remote Hiring

Greenhouse vs. Ashby vs. Lever: What 500+ Companies Tell Us About Remote Hiring

If you've spent any time job hunting, you've probably noticed that most "Apply Now" buttons redirect to one of a handful of applicant tracking systems — Greenhouse, Ashby, or Lever being three of the most common. These platforms are invisible infrastructure, but the companies that choose them aren't randomly distributed. Different ATS platforms tend to attract different kinds of employers.

We pulled real data from Remote Landers' database of verified companies with salary-transparent, genuinely remote listings, and broke it down by ATS platform. Here's what the numbers actually show.

Methodology note: this is based on companies in Remote Landers' own database — companies that already passed our quality gate for salary transparency and verified remote status. It's not a survey of the entire ATS market, so treat this as a picture of "quality remote employers we've indexed," not "every company that uses these tools."

The raw numbers

At first glance, Lever looks like the clear winner on raw job count. But that's mostly a reflection of how many companies in our database use each platform — Lever simply has the most companies represented. Once you normalize by company count, the three platforms look much closer: each company posts somewhere between 5 and 6 remote roles on average, regardless of which ATS they use.

The real differences show up somewhere else entirely.

The employer profile is where it gets interesting

Breaking listings down by job function reveals a much clearer signal than the raw totals do.

Greenhouse skews heavily toward healthcare. 83 of its 199 listings — over 40% — are in healthcare, more than double any other category on the platform. If you're a nurse practitioner, clinical coordinator, or healthcare operations specialist looking for remote work, Greenhouse-powered career pages are disproportionately likely to have relevant openings.

Ashby skews heavily toward engineering. 40 of its 151 listings are engineering roles, the largest single category by a wide margin, followed by healthcare (32) and sales (21). This tracks with Ashby's reputation as a newer ATS favored by venture-backed tech startups — companies for whom hiring engineers fast is the whole game.

Lever is the generalist of the three. Its listings span the widest range: engineering leads (105), but healthcare (43), sales (31), operations (15), and finance (14) all have meaningful representation. If Ashby and Greenhouse each have a "specialty," Lever looks more like a platform used by a broad cross-section of company types.

Salary tells a related story

We also compared average posted salaries (USD, annualized roles only) across the three platforms:

Ashby's roughly $35–45K salary premium over the other two isn't surprising once you connect it to the job-function data above — engineering roles typically command higher salaries than the healthcare, operations, and support roles that make up a larger share of Greenhouse and Lever's listings. The salary gap looks less like "Ashby pays better" and more like "Ashby's customer base skews toward a higher-paying function."

What this actually means if you're job hunting

• Targeting healthcare or clinical remote roles? Greenhouse-powered career pages are worth prioritizing — the concentration there is real.
• Targeting software engineering, especially at earlier-stage companies? Ashby is disproportionately represented, and the salary data suggests it's not a bad place to focus.
• Not sure yet, or want breadth? Lever's listings span the most functions, making it a reasonable place to browse if you're open to multiple types of roles.

None of this means you should ignore roles on any particular platform — the ATS is just plumbing, not a reflection of company quality. But if you're trying to be efficient about where you spend your job-search time, knowing which platforms tend to concentrate which kinds of roles is a genuinely useful shortcut.

We'll keep updating this analysis as our database of verified companies grows — the patterns above are based on where things stand today, and they may shift as more companies get added.