How Much Is Your LinkedIn Network Worth?

We’ve heard a lot about the “value” of LinkedIn for everything from finding a job to posting a job. “It’s free,” everyone says. (But for the time you invest, of course.)

How can something “free” be so “valuable”?

How you value your network depends on what you use it for—and who’s in it. Kevin Donlin, creator of TheSimpleJobSearch.com, values his network at $150—that’s how much you’d have to spend on his job searching products before you’d be allowed onto his buddy list of job seekers, recruiters, and hiring managers.

We did an informal poll (on LinkedIn, of course!) asking people how much they believed their networks to be worth.