PIKA RESUME — STATE OF RESUMES MEDIA ANGLE
Angle ID: ats-benchmarks
Title: What a Pika ATS benchmark can—and cannot—tell us
Audience: Careers desks and resume-advice editors

Snapshot timestamp: 2026-10-31T13:01:14.138Z
Methodology reviewed: September 12, 2026 (2026-09-12)
Coverage: 2026-05-04T14:21:44.032Z to 2026-10-31T13:01:06.870Z
Unit of analysis: successful_ats_diagnostic_scan; repeat scans may be included.
Eligible scans are completed Pika diagnostics scored 1–100, non-deleted and non-watermarked. Counts are not one unique person, document, application, or outcome. Repeat scans and document or job-description variants may be included.
Minimum reportable sample: 30 scans. Rates, averages, and profiles below this floor are withheld.

CITATION-READY FINDING
Across 226,923 successful Pika ATS diagnostic scans, the average score was 60.7/100 and the median was 62/100. 91.2% scored below Pika's 70/100 ATS-ready threshold.

EVIDENCE
- Average score: 60.7/100; median: 62/100.
- Below Pika's 70/100 threshold: 91.2% of 226,923 successful scans.

METRIC-SPECIFIC DENOMINATORS
- Overall score averages, median, and below-threshold rate: all 226,923 eligible successful scans.

PUBLIC JSON SOURCE FIELDS
- aggregateData.meta.totalAnalyzed
- aggregateData.overall.averageScore
- aggregateData.overall.medianScore
- aggregateData.overall.failRatePct
- aggregateData.meta.passThreshold

LIMITATIONS
The score and ATS-ready threshold belong to Pika's rubric, not a universal employer ATS standard or rejection rate.
Section and check-profile metrics use the latest eligible successful scans, capped at 10,000; the published sample for each metric is its relevant denominator. The checks profile further requires all eight canonical checks.
Self-selected successful Pika ATS diagnostic scans; repeat scans and variants may be included, so counts are not unique people, documents, or applications. The data is not representative of every applicant, employer, or ATS.
Pika diagnostic scores and flags do not measure employer rejection, callbacks, interviews, or hiring outcomes. No country- or role-specific result is claimed.
Scores reflect the Pika rubric in use when each scan ran. Until scoring versions are stored with historical results, score trends are product telemetry and must not be treated as comparable evidence of labour-market change.
Published percentages are rounded; zero displayed percentages must not be interpreted as exact zero counts.

EDITORIAL ASK
Use the tool-specific benchmark to explain scores without claiming employer rejection rates.

CITATION
Pika Resume. “Resume Statistics & ATS Score Benchmarks 2026: The State of Resumes.” Updated October 31, 2026. Aggregate dataset of 226,923 successful Pika ATS diagnostic scans. https://pikaresume.com/state-of-resumes

SOURCE AND ASSETS
Study: https://pikaresume.com/state-of-resumes
JSON: https://pikaresume.com/state-of-resumes/data.json
CSV: https://pikaresume.com/state-of-resumes/data.csv
Chart: https://pikaresume.com/state-of-resumes/score-distribution.svg
Methodology: https://pikaresume.com/research-methodology

PUBLISHER DISCLOSURE
Pika Resume publishes this first-party product-diagnostic dataset and sells resume tools. This is not an independent audit of employer ATS systems.
Media contact: support@pikaresume.com
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