Medical Receptionist Job Posting Requires Applicants Have 15-30 Years of Experience, Despite Only Paying $16-19 an Hour

Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor

Oct 23, 2026 8:00 AM EDT

What kind of people are applying to this job? Or was the posting written by a bot that intended for bots to apply for it?

Have you ever looked at a job posting and wondered, "Who in their right mind would apply to such a position?" I'm talking about jobs where employees only make $45K a year in San Francisco and are expected to work around the clock. Some jobs require 10-15 years of experience and still pay only $70K in New York City. If you're a normal person who is trying to pay your bills and put some money away for retirement, these jobs probably don't sound like they're for you, and you're probably right. A lot of jobs exist for the sole purpose of employing independently wealthy young people who don't need an income from a job to pay their bills. If someone has a hefty trust fund that gives them enough money to live more than comfortably every year without having to lift a finger, then they can easily take a "fun" job that makes no money. Such positions are not limited to young rich people; they also exist for old rich people.

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They want 30 years of experience for a $19 an hour part-time job

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H0vis Is this just a way to get around having to interview young people?

sqerdagent No, age discrimination only kicks in at 40. This is probably just a case of taking the person who quit/retired and using them as the benchmark

SheDrinksScotch And its only illegal if its discrimination against old people. Discrimination against young people is legal.

glasgowgeg No, age discrimination only kicks in at 40 The US is such an odd country where your age discrimination laws are discriminatory based on age themselves.

ashizzzle How much do you think they paid the person who had thirty years experience before? Doubtful they stuck around that long if they were only paid $19 an hour — I have to imagine that this is a position intended for somebody who is "retired," but still wants or needs a part-time job to subsidize their retirement fund, because they can't completely afford to live on their savings alone. That could be the case, or it could be for someone who is "retired" but still wants a part-time job so they have something to do during the day and don't go from working full-time to not working. They have enough money to live, but want the social aspect, which is why they are willing to accept a salary close to minimum wage. If I were a betting man, I'd bet this ad targets retired medical professionals willing to take a low-paying part-time job just to get out of the house.
Based on the job alone, I really doubt this role requires 15 to 30 years of experience. Maybe the boss has hired young, inexperienced people for similar positions before, and they haven't been responsible. Maybe they don't want somebody who is going to scroll through TikTok on the job. Say what you will about baby boomers, but at least they know what is appropriate and inappropriate in the workplace. They might be as addicted to Instagram Reels as any Gen Zer, but they know that if they're working at the front desk of a doctor's office, they shouldn't use their phone under any circumstances.

No_Mathematician764 get it right. they do this so no one will apply. then report it to the bureau of labor statistics.

North_Complaint_2135 Gatta show buisness is still going. Who cares if these are ghost jobs.

Sad_Emphasis_8086 I've gotten nothing but spam calls since using Indeed this year! It's so frustrating and 95% of the listings are nothing but nonsense like this one. It's crazy. My dad's in his late 60s and he's told me that job hunting has always been h_l. He can remember having difficulties since the early 2000s and he says the only way he's been ever able to have a job was by knowing people, especially after he became a US citizen. And yeah, almost every job he's had was because he knew some

-CrimsoN- Not to diss on your father's experiences, but those issues he's experienced definitely haven't gone away. But now there is also Al on top of everything and algorithms where if you don't match certain keywords, your application is automatically discarded before an actual human being even gets to glance at it and place it in the "rejection" pile. Can't even get to that point now with many jobs. I'd say it's far worse today than it ever was in the early 2000s simply because of that. Knowi

gottemupthetime OP Honestly so far in my journey of looking for a better job has just been sketchy companies calling me all the time. Then I have to go out if my way to figure out if I want to work in something I don't want to do just to gain the experience to do something I love and want to do. And Indeed is alot of garbage with a diamond in the rough sometimes. I have been trying to attend more conventions and symposium and sh like that but I guess one step at a time amirite?

chainshot91 Ive only gotten one job through indeed. The rest are from career fairs or looking at the companies own website. A friend let me know indeed just uses ai to find job openings and it doesn't do a good job of filling them out, so I'm it pointless to use the "apply through indeed".

Desiome It's so they can declare that no one is fit for the job and get someone from across the sea with zero experience or certification. Been happening for years...

Dredge18 Its ridiculous because they should have the same hiring process that american people have to go through. 15 to 30 years should apply to them too. Changing the requirements after filtering out a certain peoples should be punishable.

mere iguana when it says "$16-$19" that means $16

xaradevir It makes no sense to say a range of years is required.

BurtonWarpup have 31 years experience. Guess I don't qualify.

TheDonnerPartysChef Since when is Part Time Monday through Friday 8am- 6pm?! I've been out of work for a while, but if this is the case, there should be walk out protests everywhere.

JakeJascob They don't want the position filled is why

princessfantah Funny thing is a lot of people with 30 years experience don't even know how to apply for online jobs — I imagine that if they are trying to hire retirees, they aren't applying to jobs on Indeed. Chances are they already know who they want to hire for the position. Maybe she is the mother of one of the doctors or nurses at this facility, and they created this job posting based on her unique qualifications instead of her applying because she meets the posting's requirements. I know that this happens in the corporate world sometimes (a company wants to hire somebody internally and creates a job posting just to say that they posted a job, not because they're interested in any of the candidates), but I don't know about the medical world.

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Medical Receptionist Job Posting Requires Applicants Have 15-30 Years of Experience, Despite Only Paying $16-19 an Hour

They want 30 years of experience for a $19 an hour part-time job

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