> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://apidoc.cufinder.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Employee Growth

> A company's employee count increased by at least one between snapshots.

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  <Card title="Signal key" icon="code">
    `employee_growth`
  </Card>

  <Card title="Category" icon="category">
    Growth
  </Card>

  <Card title="Source" icon="world">
    Company Professional Network page (employee count field).
  </Card>
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A company's employee count increased by at least one between snapshots.

## When it fires

<Card title="Trigger condition" icon="bolt">
  `employee_count` increases by ≥ 1 between two consecutive snapshots.
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## Magnitude

Bucketed on the percentage change in `employee_count`. A single hire at a 10-person company (10%) buckets far higher than one hire at a 5,000-person company.

Buckets are assigned from the percentage change between snapshots:

| Bucket     | Condition                   |
| ---------- | --------------------------- |
| `low`      | 1% ≤ \|delta\_pct\| \< 5%   |
| `moderate` | 5% ≤ \|delta\_pct\| \< 15%  |
| `high`     | 15% ≤ \|delta\_pct\| \< 30% |
| `hyper`    | \|delta\_pct\| ≥ 30%        |

## Why it matters

It's the most basic growth marker. On its own it's gentle, but it's the foundation many composite signals (expansion\_signal, headcount\_recovery) build on. Sustained employee\_growth over several crawls is a reliable proxy for a company in build mode with loosening budget.

## How to read it

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  <Card title="Build phase">
    Repeated firing across crawls signals a company actively scaling teams.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Noise at scale">
    For large enterprises, a +1 change is statistically meaningless. Filter by magnitude bucket.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Composite fuel">
    Feeds expansion\_signal and headcount\_recovery, so even low-magnitude events have downstream value.
  </Card>
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## Outreach playbook

<Tip>
  Don't alert on this alone. Use it as a filter: surface accounts with employee\_growth in 3+ of the last 4 crawls, then enrich for fit.
</Tip>

## Related signals

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  <Card title="Employee Size Band Upgrade" href="/buying-signals/signals/growth/employee-size-band-upgrade">
    A company moved up a full Professional Network employee size band.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Headcount Recovery" href="/buying-signals/signals/growth/headcount-recovery">
    Employee growth returned after a recent decline.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Jobs Open Increase" href="/buying-signals/signals/growth/jobs-open-increase">
    The number of open job postings increased.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Expansion Signal" href="/buying-signals/signals/composite/expansion-signal">
    A company is expanding into new markets while growing.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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