What's a good ATS score? Live benchmarks from real scans
Computed live from our scan corpus (rolling 180-day window) · Aggregates only, minimum 25 scans per bucket
The short answer
There is no universal “good” ATS score — the honest benchmark is where you fall in the distribution of real resumes being scanned right now. This page computes that distribution live from our scan corpus: overall median and quartiles, per-industry benchmarks, and experience-level medians.
The live tables — overall distribution by 10-point band, per-industry medians with middle-half ranges, and experience-level medians — load directly from the scan corpus when this page is opened in a browser.
How to read these numbers honestly
Two caveats we insist on. First, this sample self-selects: people scan resumes when they suspect a problem, so the distribution likely sits below the true population of working professionals. Second, any resume score — ours included — is a model with error bars, not a measurement; what a resume score actually means explains how to read one without being fooled by false precision.
What the data is good for: ranking yourself against real peers instead of a made-up "75 is passing" threshold, and seeing that industry context matters — the same resume quality scores differently against different keyword expectations. Our methodology covers how the score itself is computed.
Common questions
What is a good ATS score?
Judge your score against the live distribution on this page, not a folklore threshold: the median and quartiles come from real scans in the last 180 days. Scoring above the 75th percentile means most resumes being checked right now score below yours; below the 25th percentile means parsing or keyword problems are very likely holding you back.
Do ATS systems themselves show scores like this?
Mostly no. Most ATS platforms rank and filter by recruiter searches rather than assigning a universal score. A resume score — ours included — is a diagnostic model of how well your resume will survive parsing and keyword search, not a number Workday or Greenhouse shows a recruiter.
Where do these numbers come from?
From completed scans run by real users on this site over a rolling 180-day window. Only aggregates are published: each industry or experience bucket must contain at least 25 scans before it appears, and no individual resume, score, or location is ever exposed.
Why might this sample skew low or high?
People who check their resume are often mid-job-search and suspect something is wrong, so the sample likely skews toward resumes with fixable problems. Treat the percentiles as a benchmark of active job seekers, not of every employed professional's resume.
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