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What is my LinkedIn account worth?
Five properties decide it, and they do not carry equal weight — the first one on the list moves the figure more than the other four combined. Below, what each of them does, and an estimator that places your account on the same shelf we price our own stock with. It will not invent a number for you: it tells you which tier an account like yours sells at here, between $200 and $350, and what we pay is a share of that quoted against the real account.
The estimator
Which shelf does your account land on?
The two sliders at the top are the ones that decide the tier. Everything under them moves the figure inside that tier, or — in the case of the last three — stops the deal altogether.
In order of weight
The five things that set the figure
The year it was registered
Decides the tier
Nothing else comes close. An account from eight years ago and an account from last year are different products, not the same product at different qualities, because one of them can be made on demand and the other cannot. This is the number that moves an offer the furthest, and it is the only one you cannot improve before selling.
Where the connections came from
Decides the band within the tier
Five hundred connections built out of colleagues, classmates and people in your industry are worth more than three thousand accepted cold requests, and the difference is obvious from the graph within a few minutes. Volume on its own is the weakest signal on this list; volume that matches the profile’s history is one of the strongest.
The country on the profile
Decides how fast it sells
Demand is concentrated: the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands and the Nordics turn over steadily. Elsewhere still sells, usually at a lower figure and over a longer wait, because the buyers who want it are fewer rather than because the account is worse.
Identity verification
Adds, never subtracts
A profile already carrying LinkedIn’s identity verification is worth meaningfully more, because that badge cannot be added by a new holder afterwards. Most accounts do not have it and are bought anyway — it is a premium, not a requirement.
The record on the account
Can take it to zero
A current restriction, an open identity challenge, or a recovery email you no longer control are not discounts. They are the reasons an account is turned down. Past warnings that have lapsed usually are not — tell us about them anyway, because finding out later ends the deal at the worst possible moment.
Two of those five are worth acting on before you sell. The connection graph can be improved by a few months of ordinary use, and a lapsed restriction can be waited out. The registration year is fixed forever, which is exactly why it is worth what it is worth.
Worked examples
Four accounts, run through the same rule
A shelf has two gates — a minimum age and a minimum connection count — and an account has to clear both to stand on it. That is why the answer surprises people in both directions. Here are four accounts, and where each of them lands.
| The account | Where it lands | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| Registered 2010, 500+ connections, United Kingdom, identity-verified | Established — $350 | Top of the published shelf, with the badge as real money on top of it — identity verification cannot be added afterwards by whoever holds the account next. Nothing sits above this, which is the one case where the estimator cannot flatter an account. |
| Registered 2013, about 400 connections, United States | Networked — $275 | Thirteen years and it still sits a shelf below the top one, because that shelf wants the "500+" badge and this is a hundred connections short. It is a gap the owner can close — a few months of ordinary use — and closing it is worth more than anything else that could be done to the profile. |
| Registered 2016, about 60 connections, Netherlands | Below the entry shelf | A decade of tenure behind a graph of sixty people. It lands on the entry shelf, and the entry shelf is wrong about it. That is exactly where a published tier and a real offer start to diverge: a registration date that old is scarce enough that the account gets quoted on its own rather than off the table. |
| Registered 2025, 500+ connections, United States | Established — $350 | The mirror of the one above — the network is there and the years are not. A profile this young with five hundred connections is also the one most likely to have bought them, so it gets looked at harder than the other three, and it is the cheapest of the four to replace if it goes wrong. |
Three of the four are held below the next shelf up by one number — twice by the connection count, once by the registration year — and the estimator names which one in each case. That is the most useful thing it does, because one of those two gates closes by itself after a few months of ordinary use and the other never closes at all.
What the estimator cannot see
What gets checked by hand before a figure is confirmed
Every input on the tool above is something you can read off a settings page, which is why those are the ones it asks for. One more thing is looked at before any figure is confirmed, and there is no slider for it because it is not a number: the activity history. It is the honest answer to the question the estimator provokes — why two accounts with the same year, the same country and the same connection count get different offers.
- Whether the history is spread or stacked
- Posts, comments, reactions and profile edits landing across years rather than inside one three-week burst. Spread is what makes a registration date mean something. A stack is what an account looks like when somebody has been getting it ready for something.
- Whether the timeline agrees with itself
- Job changes, education entries and the registration year telling the same story. A profile registered in 2011 whose first employment entry starts in 2019 is not disqualified by that, but it is asked about, and the answer changes the figure either way.
- Who wrote the endorsements
- Endorsements and recommendations from people who are actually inside the connection graph. It is the cheapest check there is and the one that most reliably separates a network that was built from one that was bought.
- What the account has done lately
- Specifically whether it has recently done anything out of character. This is the one that costs sellers money, and it is almost always self-inflicted.
A profile nobody has logged into for four years is not a problem. It has spent those four years accruing the one property that cannot be manufactured, and it has spent them not attracting attention — quiet is the condition most of what we buy arrives in. What costs money is the opposite instinct: an account that did nothing for three years and then, in the fortnight before it is offered, adds a photograph, writes two posts and sends forty connection requests has produced the clearest possible signal that something is about to change hands — and that signal is visible to LinkedIn, not only to us. If you are weighing this up, the most valuable thing you can do with the account is nothing at all.
Questions
What sellers ask before they send anything
How much is my LinkedIn account worth?
It depends on the connection graph, the country, whether the profile is identity-verified, and whether the record is clean. We do not publish a supplier price list because a published number would be wrong for most accounts in both directions. What is published is what the accounts sell for here — 3 tiers from $200 to $350 — and what we pay is a share of that, quoted per account.
Why will you not just tell me a number?
Because it would be a number we made up. What a given account is worth to us depends on what is selling in its country and age band that month, and that moves. A figure quoted against a real account is one we can stand behind; a range on a web page is one you would be right not to trust.
Does having more connections make my account worth more?
Up to a point, and less than most people expect. Connections can be grown by the buyer in a few months of ordinary use, so they are worth less than the registration year, which cannot be grown by anyone. Past the "500+" badge, additional connections add little unless the graph is unusually relevant.
Is my account worth anything if it is only a year or two old?
Less, and sometimes nothing. Under about three years there is little on the profile we could not build ourselves, so a young account only interests us when something else is unusual — a verified identity, an in-demand country, or a genuinely relevant network.
Should I grow the connections before I sell?
It is the one improvement worth making, and only when the account is close to a threshold. The estimator names which of the two gates is holding an account below the next shelf: if it says connections, a few months of ordinary use closes it and the "500+" badge is the point buyers actually filter on. If it says the registration year, nothing you do will move it — that gate closes only by waiting.
I stopped using the account years ago. Does that lower the figure?
On its own, no. A profile nobody has logged into has spent that time accruing the one property that cannot be manufactured, and quiet accounts attract less attention than busy ones. What lowers the figure is waking it up: a burst of posts and connection requests on a profile that did nothing for three years is the clearest available signal that an account is about to change hands. If you are considering selling, confirm you can still log in from the device you always used it on, and then leave it alone.
Does a Premium or Sales Navigator subscription add anything to the value?
No. A LinkedIn subscription is attached to the payment method rather than to the profile, so it stops when your card stops paying for it and nothing about it transfers with the account. Cancel it before the handover rather than after — it is the one line on the account that is definitely not part of what is being bought.
Does my job title or industry change what the account is worth?
Less than most people expect. The registration year, the quality of the connection graph and the country decide the shelf; the title moves the figure at the margin. A senior role in a market buyers are actively working is worth something extra, and a junior one in the same market is worth roughly what any other clean profile of that age is worth. It is the last thing looked at, not the first.
Do I need to give you my password to find out?
No. The country, the approximate age and the connection count are enough to make an offer. Credentials only come up after you have accepted a figure, and nobody should send a password to get a price.
Can I sell a LinkedIn account at all?
LinkedIn’s User Agreement says an account belongs to one person and may not be transferred or sold, and LinkedIn can restrict an account it believes has changed hands. That is the honest answer and you should weigh it before deciding. It is also why the recovery email and the account’s past warnings matter so much to the figure.
Ready for the real figure?
Country, rough age, connection count. That is everything needed to quote it, and you get an answer — a figure or a clear no with the reason — inside two business days.